Sports minister tells his country’s squad to keep a ‘cold head’‘We consider Russian athletes to be agents of hybrid influence’The acting sports minister of Ukraine, Matviy Bidnyi, has told his country’s athletes to keep a “cold head” and pay no attenti…
Yury Moisevich guilty of ‘affront to athlete’s dignity’Krystsina Tsimanouskaya feared for her safety in BelarusAn Olympic coach who tried to force the sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus, where she feared for her safet…
After she was disqualified from the world championships for not shaking Russian rival’s hand, her plight has become a touchstone for a war-torn nationOlha Kharlan remembers taking her kit, sitting quietly in a side room and contemplating a future witho…
Olha Kharlan, competing at the world championships in Milan, refused to shake Russian rival’s hand after beating herUkraine’s government has called on the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to reverse its decision to disqualify a Ukrainian fencer f…
