VIDEO SHOWS: UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING ABOUT HIS DISQUALIFICATION FROM THE OLYMPIC GAMES EDITORS PLEASE NOTE. THIS IS A LOW-RESOLUTION VERSION OF THE VIDEO DUE TO TECHNICAL REASONS. PLEASE MONITOR FOR A HIGH-RESOLUTION VERSION BEING PUBLISHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SHOTLIST ONLY. COMPLETE SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 12, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH SHOWING HIS ACCREDITATION 2. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING ON HIS PHONE / HERASKEVYCH HUGGING AN ATHLETE 3. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING ON HIS PHONE 4. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING IN INTERVIEW 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: REPORTER (OFF CAMERA), ASKING: "How would you describe your treatment this week from the IOC?" "Unfair." 6. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: REPORTER (OFF CAMERA), ASKING: "Do you think you did the right thing in the end?" "Yes, if it will be shortly, yes, because I'm defending my rights. I didn't violate any rules. So, yeah, I stand for what I believe is right. And, yeah." 8. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "To be honest, I get some days. I did three official training runs. I really like the track. I really had great results. On the last training day, I showed the best result in the run. And according to what I see today, I really think that we could be in a medal rivalry. And of course, as an athlete, I always I was dreaming about an Olympic medal and it's also like a feeling that it was taken away from me." 10. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "(I feel) Terrible. So you can imagine I'm a professional athlete and I spent hours of training every day for four years going through the whole world, competing in all the World Cups, to be able to be here today to compete in the Olympic Games, on the biggest event of the four years, and I was disqualified, and I cannot understand even why. And to be honest, I wasn't even in areas where athletes are not allowed to do any expressions. So it's another question like, what did I violate?" 12. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "So athletes should be treated fairly, equally, and yeah, I think… if we had been treated in a fair way, then we would not have this situation at all. So…" 14. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "No, it's a wild week, and definitely my life now is changing, and I cannot understand in a better way or worse, and it's too much definitely for like three days. Yeah, I just want to memorize my fellow athletes. I want to be part of the Olympic Games and to compete and to try to get my chance to win a medal." 16. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "And, yeah, to be honest, I cannot understand for what I was suspended and I still try to figure it out." 18. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 19. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "Now we are, as I told you before, so now we are looking at an option to appeal to CAS. But I need to learn some information from you, some new information, how to do it, how the process looks like, and yeah…" 20. MEDIA FILMING 21. HERASKEVYCH SPEAKING TO MEDIA 22. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE SKELETON RACER, VLADYSLAV HERASKEVYCH, SAYING: "For father, like it's always, it's also a dream of his like to become that I became a medallist and it's I think a very hard moment for father and yeah, but I hope we will go through it together and as we always do, we became and we started this beautiful sport of skeleton in Ukraine. It was first to do it on a professional level. Now we have a great team. We had, I would say, great achievements, great results in the last years. And I'm really proud of what we did and I believe we have much more to come." 23. ITALIAN FIGHTER JETS FLYING OVER HEAD IN FORMATION WITH SMOKE STREAMING OUT OF THEM IN THE COLOURS OF THE ITALIAN FLAG 24. HERASKEVYCH WITH HIS FATHER, MYKHAILO STORY: TO FOLLOW
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