Vladyslav Heraskevych, who is representing Ukraine in the skeleton race at the Beijing Winter Olympics, unfurled an 8 X 10″ sign as he came off his third of four heats that read simply, in En…
“It’s my position. Like any normal people, I don’t want war,” Heraskevych said later,
“In Ukraine, it’s really nervous now,” Heraskevych continued. “A lot of news about guns, about weapons, what’s to come in Ukraine, about some armies around Ukraine. It’s not OK, not in the 21st century. So I decided, before the Olympics, that I would show my position to the world.” Asked after Heraskevych’s protest whether he would be censured, the IOC said in a statement, “This was a general call for peace. For the IOC, the matter is closed.”
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