Tag: medalist
Seven-time gold medalist Pertti Sankilampi is pensive at the start of the Paralympics: “There is no Olympic peace”
China’s Paralympics are overshadowed by Russia’s war against Ukraine. In Finland, the sports movement for the disabled was born through war invalids. Municipal councilor and champion of para-sports Pertti Sankilampi…
Zhan Beleniuk, MP, Olympic wrestling medalist and champion of the Ukrainian cause
Boxers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko or Vasiliy Lomachenko and Aleksandr Usyk, MMA fighter Yaroslav Amosov… many Ukrainian athletes call to defend their homeland, attacked by Russia. Among them, Zhan Beleniuk,…
A bold appearance from a Russian Beijing Olympic medalist – “No to war!”
Russian biathlete Svetlana Mironova did a bold move and sent a message on social media about the peace and love of the Ukrainian people. Russian medalist in the Beijing Olympics…
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, mass start gold medalist
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet became Friday, February 18, Olympic champion of the mass start women’s biathlon. The Frenchwoman who lived through the complicated Olympic Games beat the Norwegians Tiril Eckhoff and Marte…
Max Parrot, Olympic medalist survived cancer: what is Hodgkin’s lymphoma?
News Published 2 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. Canadian Max Parrot has just won the slopestyle snowboarding gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. At 27, this athlete is a…
Hungarian gymnast Csollany, double Olympic medalist, dies
Hungarian gymnast Szilveszter Csollany, double Olympic champion, died on Monday January 29 at the age of 51 from the consequences of Covid-19. Szilveszter Csollany had contracted the coronavirus in early…