{"id":1362787,"date":"2026-02-26T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/playing-with-russia-and-destroying-ukraine-geraskevych-called-for-bubka-to-be-stripped-of-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:01:33","slug":"playing-with-russia-and-destroying-ukraine-geraskevych-called-for-bubka-to-be-stripped-of-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/playing-with-russia-and-destroying-ukraine-geraskevych-called-for-bubka-to-be-stripped-of-the-title-of-hero-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlaying with Russia\u201d and \u201cdestroying Ukraine\u201d: Geraskevych called for Bubka to be stripped of the title of Hero of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ukrainian skeleton athlete who was not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games wearing a \u201cmemory helmet\u201d called for Serhiy Bubka to be stripped of the title of Hero of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said this while speaking in the Verkhovna Rada,<\/span> Ukrinform<\/span> quotes him as saying<\/span><\/a> .<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have several representatives from Ukraine who are in the IOC \u2014 now I’m talking about Mr. Bubka \u2014 who still bear the title of Hero of Ukraine. In fact, I am ashamed that he bears this title, he should not bear it,\u201d the athlete emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the skeleton athlete, Bubka is \u201cplaying along with Russia\u201d and \u201cdestroying Ukraine\u201d \u2014 trading with the occupiers, allowing Russian flags in the organization he heads.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when he bears the title of Hero of Ukraine, which is now most often awarded posthumously, this is unacceptable,\u201d Geraskevych noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that Bubka could be stripped of his title by imposing sanctions on him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Geraskevych was disqualified<\/a> before the start of the competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

We will remind you that he went to training on the Olympic track wearing a “memory helmet”<\/a> with images of athletes who died during the war with Russia.<\/p>\n

The International Olympic Committee later banned skeleton athlete Vladislav Geraskevych from competing at the Olympic Games in a helmet with the image of Ukrainian athletes<\/a> who died as a result of the full-scale Russian invasion.<\/p>\n

By the way, after being suspended from the 2026 Olympics , the athlete said that there are things more important than medals<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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A Ukrainian skeleton athlete who was not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games wearing a \u201cmemory helmet\u201d called for Serhiy Bubka to be stripped of the title of Hero of Ukraine. He said this while speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrinform quotes him as saying . \u201cWe have several representatives from Ukraine who are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1357324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1362787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}