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High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins Ukraine's 1st individual gold of the Paris Olympics (sports.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Gold 🥇 and Bronze 🥉

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

While I don't care about the Olympics, I care very much that Ukraine won something which Russia did not.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man I was rooting for so hard when she went for the world record the end. I wasn't aware that was a thing they could do.

[–] Tinks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Same! Some of her earlier jumps would have easily cleared it, but she didn't quite make it on the last one. Still though, really awesome showing by Ukraine!!