oh how awful what a horrible person to have symbols of his home country on his helmet... why can’t he just use a crescent moon or a sickle and hammer?
The issue isn’t “symbols” (the Statue of Liberty, bald eagle, etc. are staying), but writings. In practice, the IOC generally doesn’t allow any writings of any kind on an Olympian’s uniform, other than the country name.
Yeah or CCCP or even USA on their uniforms. This is a bogus decision.
Actually in the old days you couldn’t show commercial logos, even a small one. I have this gnawing suspicion that Nike or someone like that is behind this.