PARIS — Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian world-record high jumper, may have just won Olympic gold, but she and other winning athletes from Ukraine are not resting in Paris — they're trying to shine the spotlight on the war tearing apart their country. 'The Olympic Games are about peace,' she said.
Men’s hammer throw bronze medalist Mykhaylo Kokhan, women’s high jump bronze medalist Iryna Gerashchenko and women’s high jump gold medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh speak at the Ukrainian house at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
These missile strikes forced Mahuchikh to spend the last two and a half years mostly abroad as she focused on her main goal — the Olympic gold, which she won Sunday. Despite the hardships, she succeeded, saying that the war gave her motivation and a greater purpose to represent her country. But the success was bittersweet.“We were happy on the first evening, but the next day … unfortunately, we have a very aggressive enemy,” she said. “Russia struck Ohmatdyt. And honestly, there was no joy anymore,” referring to the missile attack in Kyiv last month that hit the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine.
Neutral athletes from Belarus, a key Russian ally, also won gold and silver medals in the men’s and women’s trampoline competitions, respectively, on Friday, and Belarusian rower Yauheni Zalaty won a silver Saturday.
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