Category: 8. Sports

First Olga Kharlan sank to her knees. Then she kissed the ground where she had just claimed an Olympic bronze medal, in acknowledgement of how it has served her over the years.

“I’m just thankful to the piste (the strip on which fencers…

Argentina defeated the Ukrainian Olympic football team 2:0, kicking the latter out of the tournament.

Thiago Almada opened the score on the 47th minute, followed by a goal from 18-year-old Claudio Echeverri in stoppage time….

Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 2018, snowboarder Alena Zavarzina was with a group of Russian athletes at the Sports Ministry in Moscow. It was a few days before their departure for the Winter Olympics in South Korea. They were driven out of the…

Fencer Olga Kharlan claimed a first medal for Ukraine at the Paris…

Fencer Olga Kharlan has won Ukraine’s first medal at the Paris Olympics, taking bronze in the women’s individual saber event on July 29.

The 33-year-old beat South Korea’s Choi Se-bin 15-14 in a fiercely contested match.

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Kharlan made…

Ukraine lobbied to exclude Russia

At least 487 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed over the course of the war, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Youth and Sports, while many have been seriously wounded. Runner Yana Stepanenko…

Ukraine’s football team won its second game at the Olympic Games in Paris on July 27, beating Morocco 2:1. This is the country’s first ever victory in football at the Olympics.

Ukraine lost its first match to Iraq earlier this week. After two…

PARIS (AP) — For Ukrainian competitors in Paris for the Olympics, joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. Athletes are striving to enjoy the dream of competing at one of the world’s most prestigious sports…

142 Ukrainian athletes will compete representing Ukraine at Paris 2024 Olympics from July 26 to August 11. Among them are both rising stars and Olympic champions excelling in 26 out of 32 sports, including break dancing, which has its debut at…