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Ukraine hurdler: "You’re not doing it for yourself anymore. Winning a medal just for yourself, being a champion, realizing your ambitions.. it’s inappropriate” The broader war is making it increasingly difficult for Ukraine , once a post-Soviet sports power, to get headline-capturing medals.
Ukraine 's haul of 11 medals at 2016 Rio Games was its smallest as an independent nation and tumbled to 22nd in the country rankings.
Among Ukraine 's many tens of thousands of dead and injured are athletes, coaches and others in sports organizations.
Some of the athletes killed might have had a shot of qualifying for Paris .
Ryzhykova worries the war will accelerate a downward spiral for Ukrainian sport.
She struggles with the prospect of face-to-face encounters with competitors from Russia and Belarus .
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