Author: Ihor Stelmach

Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Viktoriia Onopriienko’s outstanding performances in the Grand Prix “Miss Valentine 2024” event held in Tartu, Estonia, on March 2-3 earned her five total medals including four gold medals. Onopriienko won golds in the senior individual hoop, ball, ribbon and all-around competitions while coming in second and winning the silver medal in clubs....

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As Vladimir Putin’s full-scale unprovoked invasion and war approaches two full years, Ukraine continues to defend itself on the battlefields, including the frozen, wet trenches of Donbas. Sergey Bubka, arguably Ukraine’s most iconic athlete, is a native of eastern Ukraine. The legendary pole vaulter was an imposing figure in post-Soviet Ukrainian sports. He dominated world...

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The 2024 Virtus World and European Indoor Athletics Championships, a competition for athletes with intellectual impairments, were held in Reims, France, on February 20-25. Ukraine’s 15 athletes captured 24 total medals, including 13 gold, seven silver and four bronze medals to finish first overall among the nine nations competing at the event. Ukraine, which secured...

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On February 20, 2022, Zoia Novikova gave birth to her fourth baby girl in Dnipro, Ukraine. Four days later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Novikova, a table tennis Euro Cup gold medalist and a winner of several European championships, took off on a survival expedition along with husband Sergii Korkin, an established table...

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The Ukrainian city of Lviv has become a rehabilitation center for soldiers injured in the war with Russia, including many who have lost an arm or leg. As some complete their rehabilitation, they have the desire to get back into sports. Some have succeeded, playing for Pokrova, Ukraine’s first amputee soccer club. Before Russia’s unprovoked...

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Surprises are the rule in swimming’s 50-meter sprint events with little to no margin for error over the course of one lap. The final of the 50-meter men’s freestyle at the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, on February 17 produced a shocker. Ukrainian Vladyslav Bukhov claimed the gold medal with a time of 21.44,...

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As Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine passes the two-year mark, Ukraine’s leadership needs to learn from and react to events in 2022 and 2023. Perhaps the most significant lesson to learn from the past two years of conflict is the superiority of a defensive strategy over offensive warfare. Defensive operations have shown to be consistently...

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Elite Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan won the gold medal at the 2024 Women’s Saber World Cup held in Lima, Peru, on February 9-11. Because Kharlan is currently ranked sixth in the world, she was given direct entry into the main draw. She defeated Hungarian Lisa Pustai (15-11) in the quarterfinal and American Elizabeth Tarta­kovsky (15-12)...

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UEFA’s Europa League playoffs kicked off in Hamburg, Germany, on February 15 with Marseille leading the match on two occasions only to be dramatically caught by Shakhtar Donetsk, which fought back to earn a 2-2 draw setting up a nail-biting second leg in France later this month. Goals by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Iliman Ndiaye proved...

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Ukrainian boxer Anna Lysenko has already experienced the Olympic challenge, almost winning a medal at the 2021 Tokyo Games. She knows the stakes and how much preparation and training are required to attain elite athlete status in her sport. She has been hard at work in a modest gym in downtown Kyiv despite the unnerving...

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Ukrainian athletes won a pair of medals in Para Nordic skiing on the first day of the Para Nordic Cup in Martell, Italy, on January 31 through February 4. Pavlo Bal won gold in men’s classic sitting and Liudmyla Liashenko took silver in women’s sprint classic standing. The inaugural event of the 2024 Para biathlon...

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After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions. A subsequent ruling that allowed so-called individual neutral athletes (INA’s) to participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics was a softening of the IOC’s stance from its original position. In addition, many of the athletes already...

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