IOC answers questions as Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics over banned helmet

Federaţia Rusă

(12 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Milan – 12 February 2026 1. Wide of briefing room 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Adams, IOC spokesperson: “We can have a kind of universally agreed way of expressing grief which is the black armband. If we go beyond that, as I said before, with 130 conflicts in the world, 130 different cases, think of the Middle East, think of Africa, think of South America. If everyone is allowed to express themselves in that way beyond a black armband. It will