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There are only a few hours left before the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, and the athletes are competing for the last sets of medals. Ukrainian athletes will no longer be eligible for them.
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2024 Olympics results: where Ukraine stands and how it performed at previous Games
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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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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Ukraine to compete for gold, bronze in Olympic wrestling
Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler Parviz Nasibov will compete for the gold medal in the 67-kilogram category at the 2024 Paris Olympics after successfully defeating Azerbaijani wrestler Hasrat Jafarov in the semi-finals on Aug. 7.
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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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