As Ukrainian athletes prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will seek to boost the morale of their compatriots in Ukraine amid an ongoing war and a brutal winter.

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladylsav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics due to his helmet, which features pictures of people killed in the war with Russia.

The Ukrainian Olympic athlete Vladislav Heraskevych displays the memorial helmet that resulted in his ban.

The first week in Milan-Cortina was supposed to be about clean edges, fast tracks, and perfect landings, but the story of these Winter Games is already far messier. From the sliding track in Cortina to the jump hills of Predazzo and the cauldron at San Siro,

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych will not competeafter refusing a last-minute plea from the IOC to use a helmet other than the one that honors more than 20 of his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.

An awkward Olympic moment unfolded as a Ukrainian skater waited for his score just feet from a Russian skater in the new leader’s “hot seat.”

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not happy with the International Olympics Committee. A Ukrainian athlete has been barred from competing due to a "controversial" helmet. The athlete was disqualified for wearing a helmet to honor victims in the war with Russia.

A Ukrainian athlete has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics over his insistence on wearing a helmet honoring people killed in his country's war with Russia

The International Olympic Committee said that the helmet wouldn’t be allowed in competition, citing a rule against making political statements