At the Paris Olympics, it will no longer be personal for Ukraine's athletes. This time, it's war

“I can’t even imagine this anger,” she says. “How to restrain oneself, how to look at them.”

Her priority remains Ukraine and keeping its losses and sacrifices in the spotlight.

I hope she doesn't let the war anger get the best of her. If she does it could foul up her attempts at winning anything.

Hopefully they can draw attention to Russia's disgrace by their own excellence.

The gleaming “Neptune” aquatic center in Mariupol was bombed in the Russian siege of that devastated port city and now the city is under occupation

Wait wait! I have a question: who has bombed the sport centre Donetsk Arena in 2014 in Donetsk??? Russians?? No! It's Ukrainians bombed Ukrainians!

To the point, after the return of Mariupol to Russia, many sports facilities have already been restored. New sport sites are being built. Mariupol is in much better condition now than before the war.

The Russians have bombed many Ukraine sports stadiums. Important targets?

The Russians have bombed many Ukraine sports stadiums.

Name some of the "many"

Pole vault star Sergei Bubka and the boxing Klitschko brothers — Vitali and Wladimir, the Olympic super-heavyweight champion in 1996 — were among other athletes who put the new nation on sport’s map

Klitschko brothers said they were not going to die for Ukraine. They are going to live for Ukraine, because it is much more difficult. This information is easily accessible on the Internet. Wladimir Klitschko actually ran away to Germany and does not stick out from there. Sergei Bubka did not make any statements against Russia, for which he fell out of favor in Ukraine. Apparently, he is waiting for the arrival of Russia

Attention is drawn to you only when you win, when you perform, when you are on the podium,

She is right. But she doesn't finish the idea. She knows that the fans, citizens of Ukraine, after these words continue: if you don't win, then go straight to the trench. Ukrainian fans will not support the loss. By the way, the players of the Ukrainian national team learned so many curses from fans after losing EURO 2024 that I do not know if they will be back home from Europe.

To the point, after the return of Mariupol to Russia, many sports facilities have already been restored. New sport sites are being built. Mariupol is in much better condition now than before the war.

Firstly, Mariupol is a very example of a Potemkin city. Shady Russian contractors descended to the city to build up a facade based on cheap but quick construction in order to pocket lots of profits. Russia poured a lot of money without caring who those out-of-townee contractors are or what they do - Russia just wanted it done quick. But the locals know, and they know their city better than anybody:

"Inside Mariupol: Russia’s new Potemkin village - Locals live in perilous conditions while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions"

https://ig.ft.com/mariupol

If you're not familiar what a Potemkin city means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (Russian: потёмкинские деревни, romanized: potyomkinskiye derevni) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built by Grigory Potemkin, a field marshal and former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress the Empress during her journey to Crimea in 1787.

Secondly, what good are any new sports sites in Mariupol when the natives Ukrainians aren't allowed to use it. It's as good as useless to the native residents of the city

Still, Ukrainian athletes have been punching above their weight class. Even without steady home facilities to anchor their trainings, they been having great successes recently such as:

"Ukraine's Mahuchikh breaks 1987 women's high jump world record"

https://www.reuters.com/sports/athletics/ukraines-mahuchikh-breaks-1987-womens-high-jump-world-record-2024-07-07/

That was broken last week. That record stood for 37 years!

"Ukraine’s Usyk beats Fury to become undisputed heavyweight boxing world champion"

https://www.aol.com/news/ukraine-usyk-beats-fury-become-021655177.html

"The Ukrainian national team dedicated its triumph at the European Mixed Martial Arts Championship to Military Intelligence"

https://odessa-journal.com/the-ukrainian-national-team-dedicated-its-triumph-at-the-european-mixed-martial-arts-championship-to-military-intelligence

Yaroslav Amosov, the Klitschko brothers and the fighters standing for Ukraine | 'I just thought about defending my country'

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Yaroslav Amosov stayed in his country to fight; now the Bellator champion returns to MMA to represent his country; other fighters like Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are hugely significant figures in Ukraine's struggle