Ukraine wins first gold of Paris 2024 in fencing

Olga Kharlan explains how challenging it has been to represent their war-hit country

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00:00I would like to add something.

00:02A lot of things.

00:04Each of us has a family,

00:06who is now in Ukraine.

00:12This period is still going on,

00:14it is very difficult,

00:16because when your country

00:18is being bombed every day,

00:20people are being killed,

00:22children are being killed,

00:24athletes are being killed,

00:26infrastructure is being destroyed.

00:28Your family is there.

00:32It is very difficult,

00:34but during these two and a half years

00:36we have learned

00:40to fight,

00:42to fight against our emotions,

00:44and to know that

00:48our boys and girls,

00:50who protect us,

00:52they are at the forefront,

00:54they protect us

00:56with everything,

00:58with their lives,

01:00and it is difficult for them.

01:02They motivated us a lot,

01:04and we could not stop,

01:06even when it was difficult.