SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — It was a night for war-torn Ukraine to rejoice. Thousands of Ukrainians watched on YouTube as high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold for the country she was forced to flee, then celebrated with two teammates who also medaled at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. Iryna Gerashchenko shared bronze in the high jump and Mykhaylo Kokhan then claimed a bronze in the hammer throw, too — doubling Ukraine's Olympic medal haul from three to six in the span of about an hour.

Gold 🥇 and Bronze 🥉

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 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·
    5 months ago

    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·
      5 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!!

    • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      (I think the joke is that Russians love to claim, without sharing any evidence, absurd things when they lose, or their enemies win. As they did in the women’s boxing match. Ukraine is their enemy. It all originates from Putin having a deformed micropenis.)