FILE – An F-16 fighter lands at a Turkish air base in the Central Anatolian Turkish city of Konya on Sept. 8, 2004. Norway…
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Ukraine in her heart, world-record high jumper goes for Paris gold
SAINT-DENIS, France —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…
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z-Propanganda in e-Sports: How Russia Uses e-Sports as a Propagandistic Platform
Russia exploits e-sports for propagandistic purposes.
According to Statista, in 2019, global e-sports revenues amounted to 957.5 million U.S. dollars, a figure that is expected to exceed 1.6 billion by 2024. The easy accessibility of…
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Ukraine’s Kichenok sisters reach women’s doubles Olympic tennis quarterfinals
The Kichenok sisters, Lyudmyla and Nadiia, have successfully advanced to the women’s doubles quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They achieved this milestone by defeating the American duo of Danielle Collins and Desirae Krawczyk.
In the…
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More Ukrainians Appear Open to a Peace Deal
Olha Predchenko held hands with her 85-year-old mother as they looked at the makeshift memorial on the grass in central Kyiv, each blue and yellow flag marked with the name of a soldier who had died fighting in the war with Russia.
They come here…
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Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk defeats world’s No. 8 seed to reach Olympic quarter-finals
Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk (WTA ranking No. 19) has defeated Greece’s Maria Sakkari (seeded 8) in the 2024 Olympics round of 16.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda’s holding company
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Falling Out of Love With Sports — And the Russian Regime
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…
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Ukraine loses to Argentina, fails to reach Olympic football knockout stage
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….
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Ukraine’s Olympic chief celebrates limited Russian presence at Paris Olympics
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…
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Ukraine fencer’s Olympic medal ‘for athletes Russia killed’ – DW – 07/30/2024
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…
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