The Ukrainian luge team committed a silent but unmistakable act of protest following their run in the team relay on Thursday afternoon, when all six athletes knelt to the ground and held up their helmets in solidarity with disqualified countryman Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Heraskevych, one of Ukraine's flag bearers and a slider for the men's skeleton event, was nixed from competition on Thursday morning when he refused to change his helmet from one that featured the faces of athletes and coaches killed in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war to one the International Olympic Committee deemed permissible.
