Heart-wrenching news for 19-year-old Anastasiia Laletina at the Paralympic Games in Beijing
Ukrainian athletes are fighting just as bravely at the Paralympic Winter Games as the friends and families they left behind, but for one biathlete, the news from home was just too much to take. Anastasiia Laletina, 19, pulled out of her middle-distance sitting race Tuesday morning after hearing that her father, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, had been captured by the Russian invaders. “Her father is a soldier in the Ukrainian army and prisoner by Russian soldiers.
“She was very upset and couldn’t take part in the race.” Despite the harrowing news from Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin’s army is shelling civilians in towns and cities, Ukrainian athletes won nine Paralympic medals Tuesday, leaving them second in the medal table. They included a clean sweep for Iryna Bui, Oleksandra Kononova, and Liudmyla Liashenko in the standing middle-distance biathlon race. “We are here to fight for Ukraine, with Ukraine and in the name of Ukraine,” Bui, 26, told reporters.
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