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High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins Ukraine's 1st individual gold of the Paris Olympics (sports.yahoo.com)
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Gold ๐Ÿฅ‡ and Bronze ๐Ÿฅ‰

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[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] Tinks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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!!