{"id":424220,"date":"2026-02-13T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:56:07","slug":"who-is-on-helmet-that-led-to-ukrainian-athletes-disqualification-from-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424220\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is on helmet that led to Ukrainian athlete&#8217;s disqualification from Winter Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Halinichev died in 2023 in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Ukrainian news outlet Tribuna, he refused to participate in a 2022 European boxing championship in order to volunteer as a soldier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Voice of America, one of his coaches said once Halinichiev had seen the destruction caused by the war, he felt he had to fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have a little child. I don&#8217;t want her to live in occupation among the aggressor, among the Russians,&#8221; another of his coaches quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribuna said Halinichev was injured twice during the war but continued to fight until his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won silver at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the 2021 European U22 Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halinichev died in 2023 in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. According to Ukrainian news outlet Tribuna, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-424220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}