Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Stock photo: Getty Images
Only a few hours are left until the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, and the athletes are competing for the last sets of medals that will no longer affect Ukraine’s overall medal…
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Ukrainian gold medal-winning boxer returns home to lift spirits amid war
Ukraine’s gold medal-winning boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak gave a military salute to the crowd gathered to celebrate his return to the war-torn country from the Paris Olympics.
Stepping out of the special Olympic Express train at Kyiv’s central…
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Overall medal count of 2024 Olympics: Ukraine in top 20
The overall medal count of the 2024 Olympic Games has been updated as of the conclusion of the fourteenth day of competition, 9 August.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda’s holding company
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What Ukraine’s assault on Russia could mean for EU gas supplies | Energy
A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply…
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Paris Olympics: These twins are on an Olympic ‘mission’ to serve Ukraine
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Ukrainian twins Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva will join more than 10,000 athletes at this year’s Olympics in Paris, but the artistic swimmers’ preparation for…
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How did life begin on Earth? Research zeroes in on lightning strikes. — Harvard Gazette
About four billion years ago, Earth resembled the set of a summer sci-fi blockbuster. The planet’s surface was a harsh and barren landscape, recovering from hellish asteroid strikes, teeming with volcanic eruptions, and lacking enough nutrients to sustain even the simplest forms of…
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As Ukraine Collects Medals in Paris, Its Sports Pipeline Is in Tatters
The Olympic medals have come in a flurry for Ukraine in recent days: golds at the track and on the fencing piste, a silver in gymnastics, two other bronzes.
“It’s a time to celebrate and think not about the war,” Mykhailo Kokhan, 23, a…
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Olga Kharlan: Ukraine’s most successful Olympian fighting for more than medals
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered tanks and troops into Ukraine in February 2022, it triggered Europe’s largest land invasion since World War II.
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Olympics is personal for Ukraine’s athletes as war takes its toll
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — For Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova, each stride on the Paris Olympic track will have meaning far beyond the time she clocks.
Her competitions are no longer strictly an individual battle, but war…Continue Reading
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Ukraine at the Paris Olympics a Symbol of Hope and Determination
“Since we don’t have a recording of the national anthem of Ukraine, will it be a problem if in honor of Baiul the national anthem of Russia is played?”
In 1994, when figure skater Oksana Baiul became the first Olympic champion from…
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