Overview
- An ad hoc panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Wladyslaw Heraskewytsch’s emergency appeal, leaving his disqualification from the men’s skeleton event in place.
- CAS Secretary-General Matthieu Reeb said freedom of expression is protected at the Games except at the field of play, aligning with Olympic Charter Rule 50.
- The IBSF removed Heraskewytsch before the first run after he refused to swap a helmet honoring Ukrainians killed in the war for a neutral one.
- IOC President Kirsty Coventry defended the enforcement, saying “the rules are the rules,” as the case became an early test of her leadership.
- Matt Weston won skeleton gold ahead of Axel Jungk and Christopher Grotheer, and in a separate headline result Ilia Malinin fell to eighth in men’s figure skating as Mikhail Shaidorov took gold.