Ukraine s Paralympic team endured an unlikely and emotional journey to compete in Beijing last month. Then they travelled home, meeting a harsher reality than they knew before.
Ukraine s Paralympic team endured an unlikely and emotional journey to compete in Beijing last month. Then they travelled home, meeting a harsher reality than they knew before.
As the curtain closes on what has been heralded as another successful Paralympics, what has been made evident is that even the world s premier sporting event for athletes with impairments is not immune from the ripple effects of the Ukraine war.
BEIJING With heavy hearts and unimaginable worry, athletes from the Ukrainian national Paralympic team arrived in China two weeks ago, seeking to win medals and draw attention to the