Shakhtar boss pays Ukrainian racer $200,000 after Games disqualification
Daily Maverick | 18.02.2026 04:25
MILAN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after the athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, the club said on Tuesday.
