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.
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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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Ukraine Is Still Too Corrupt to Join the West
Ukraine’s strategy of defeating Russia by joining the West’s political community and security institutions has been undermined by its continued struggles with corruption, a problem that is still far beyond Western standards. The…
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Fencer Olga Kharlan wins Ukraine’s first Olympic 2024 medal
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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Ukraine’s Olha Kharlan Wins Bronze in Fencing at Olympics
Olha Kharlan went to her knees, as if in disbelief, after a stirring comeback in the women’s saber fencing competition. She kissed the metallic dueling surface. Finally, she jumped into her coach’s arms and then bowed theatrically to the…
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