US EditionShakhtar Donetsk Owner Donates to Disqualified Ukrainian Olympian After Helmet Controversy
Rinat Akhmetov donated $200,000 to support Vladyslav Heraskevych’s career and advocacy after his disqualification for wearing a helmet honoring fallen Ukrainian athletes.
- The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk donated over $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games for wearing a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia.
- Heraskevych had been allowed to train with the helmet for several days in Cortina d'Ampezzo, but the International Olympic Committee warned him a day before his competition that he could not wear it.
- The amount donated to Heraskevych by Shakhtar President Rinat Akhmetov is equal to the prize money Ukraine pays athletes who win a gold medal at the Games.
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Ukrainian skeletoner Vladyslav Heraskevych had been disqualified from the Olympics 2026 after wearing a helmet with pictures of Ukrainian athletes who had died in the war, despite the IOC's warnings. Football club Shakhtar Donetsk wanted to reward his struggle for the memory of his country with the sum of 200,000 euros.
Rinat Akhmetov says the biggest reward is pride, but he still wants to help Vladislav Heraskevich's career.
Ukrainian Athlete Expelled From Jjoo for His Helmet Received Millionaire Donation From Football Team
Ukrainian sportsman Vladyslav Heraskevych, separated from the competition of the Milan Winter Olympics Cortina 2026 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), received a donation of $200,000. The skeleton specialist, remember, was expelled from the contest for not giving up the use of the helmet with photographs of athletes from his country killed in the war with Russia. Days after the scandal, Heraskevych received a donation of $200,000 (177…
Five days after the disqualification of Ukrainian Vladislav Heraskevic from the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games, because of his chaos that hosted most of the teams killed in the conflict with Russia, the president of the Shahtior Donetzk club, Rinat Ahmetov, made a contribution of 200,000 dollars to the sport from Skeleton.
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