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Many high-profile Ukrainians had called for all Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned from this year’s Olympic Games, including tennis star Elina…

After Ukraine’s women’s saber fencing team won its first gold at 2024 Olympics on Aug. 3, saber fencer Olga Kharlan becomes the most decorated Olympian in Ukraine’s history by medal count.

Ukraine has so far won three medals at the Paris…

Ukraine won their first gold medal at Paris 2024 with a thrilling victory in the women’s sabre team event final over South Korea.

Olga Kharlan, who won Ukraine’s first medal in Paris with individual bronze on Monday, put in an inspired performance…

The best high jumper in Ukraine, and maybe the world, hasn’t spent much time at home the last few years.

Home for Yaroslava Mahuchikh is Dnipro, a city of 1 million located only about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from…

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…

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….

PARIS (AP) — The head of Ukraine’s Olympic delegation touted the limited numbers of Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics — who must compete as neutrals — as war between the two countries grinds…

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…