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 War: Republicans, Democrats at Odds Over US Role, Support
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks down a street in Kyiv during an announced visit to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 14, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted…
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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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Kharlan made…
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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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Fencer Kharlan claims first medal for Ukraine at Paris Games
Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan reacts to winning the Fencing Women’s Sabre Individual Bronze Medal at Grand Palais during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Mickael Chavet/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Fencer Olga Kharlan claimed a first medal for Ukraine at the Paris…
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