Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: “Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat.” It was banned from the Olympics on the grounds of being a “political slogan.”
‘Remembrance is not a violation’ — third Ukrainian athlete barred from wearing helmet at Olympics
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