Ukrainian athletes training for the Paris Olympics are torn between their sport’s demand for complete concentration on the here and now, and the war back home that is never far from their minds. Kateryna Tabashnyk is a 30-year-old high jumper who is training in southern Portugal. Her hometown of Kharkiv is under daily bombardment and she thinks often of the Russian missiles that have stolen so much: her mother, her apartment, a pain-free childhood for her nephew, even the fields where she trained. (AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko, Emilio Morenatti/Produced by Susie Blann)
Ukraine’s Olympics high jumper keeps eye on raised bar, but mind remains fixed on war
Ukrainian athletes training for the Paris Olympics are torn between their sport’s demand for complete concentration on the here and now, and the war back home that is never far from their minds. Kateryna Tabashnyk is a 30-year-old high jumper who is training in southern Portugal. Her hometown of Kharkiv is under daily bombardment and she thinks often of the Russian missiles that have stolen so much: her mother, her apartment, a pain-free childhood for her nephew, even the fields where she trained. (AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko, Emilio Morenatti/Produced by Susie Blann)
