Olympic legends are made through athletic performances that awe and inspire. But at the Milan Cortina Winter Games, Vladyslav Heraskevych became a legend for his commitment to principle, for sacrificing his opportunity to compete despite being a medal contender. The Ukrainian skeleton athlete will always be an indelible memory from a Winter Games that demonstrated to the world that the International Olympic Committee, the self-proclaimed "supreme authority" of the Olympics, is supremely out of touch. The IOC's dogmatic, fanciful brand of "neutrality" deprived an Olympian of his rightful opportunity to go for gold. The reality is that the IOC's neutrality stance favours those in power and has ramifications far beyond these Winter Games.