{"id":66116,"date":"2026-02-12T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/winter-olympics-2026-ukrainian-athlete-kicked-out-of-skeleton-over-helmet-tribute-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:56:10","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-ukrainian-athlete-kicked-out-of-skeleton-over-helmet-tribute-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/winter-olympics-2026-ukrainian-athlete-kicked-out-of-skeleton-over-helmet-tribute-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete kicked out of skeleton over helmet tribute \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/04\/winter-olympics-2026-latest-medal-table-milano-cortina\">Medal table<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/04\/winter-olympics-full-schedule-milano-cortina-2026\">Live scores and schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/04\/winter-olympics-results-milano-cortina-2026\">Results<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/11\/winter-olympics-briefing-von-allmen-joins-greats-with-sweep-and-a-shrug\">Briefing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sport.theguardian.com\">Follow us over on Bluesky<\/a> | And get in touch: <a href=\"mailto:tanya.aldred.freelance@guardian.co.uk\">mail Tanya<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The skeleton event,<\/strong> in which Heraskevych was supposed to have been racing, is well underway at the Cortina Sliding Centre. After run one, Britain\u2019s Matt Weston is currently in the lead, with Britain\u2019s Marcus Wyatt in seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Run two starts at 10.08, with the final tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/feb\/12\/winter-olympics-2026-day-six-live-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | And get in touch: mail Tanya The skeleton event, in which Heraskevych was supposed to have been racing, is well underway at the Cortina Sliding Centre. After run one, Britain\u2019s Matt Weston is currently in the lead, with &#8230; <a title=\"Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete kicked out of skeleton over helmet tribute \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/winter-olympics-2026-ukrainian-athlete-kicked-out-of-skeleton-over-helmet-tribute-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete kicked out of skeleton over helmet tribute \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}