Ukrainian athletes have received 124 licenses to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris (France), said Vadym Gutzeit, president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOC).
“As of today, we have 124 licenses in total. These are 140 sportsmen and women who will participate in the Olympic Games. We have completed the selection for the Olympic Games, Ukraine finally has 124 licenses,” Gutzeit said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to him, on July 8, the NOC has already submitted an application to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the team composition.
The head of the NOC said that Ukraine will be represented at the Olympics in almost all sports, except for the games.
At the same time, he emphasized that for the first time since the country’s independence, the Ukrainian national football team qualified for the Olympics.
As reported, the Summer Olympics in Paris will be held from July 26 to August 11.
Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas in the women’s triple jump at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo has broken the best result in the world set by Ukrainian athlete Inessa Kravets 25 years ago, according to the official website of the Olympics on Sunday.
“The record, which was held by Ukrainian Inessa Kravets since 1995, was always under threat from the outset of the event. And Rojas fairly blew away the previous world-best of 15.50 meters with her massive final jump,” according to the website.
As reported, Rojas completed a triple jump of 15.67 meters ─ this is 17 centimeters more than the Ukrainian athlete at one time. So Rojas set a world record in the discipline.
It is noted that she also became the first Venezuelan woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
UA: PERSHYI TV channel will broadcast the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 from July 23 to August 8, the press service of the TV channel reports.
“The broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Games begins at 13:50 and lasts until 18:00. The Ukrainian team at these Olympic Games will be represented by 157 athletes,” the message says.
The first competition starts on July 24.
The broadcast of the morning sessions of the competition starts at 3:00 daily, the afternoon sessions starts at 11:00. From 18:30 to 21:00, replays of the morning session are to be broadcast, from 22:00 – reruns of the evening sessions.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk states that the idea of jointly hosting the Olympic Games with Belarus deserves in-depth study.
“In my opinion, this idea definitely deserves in-depth study. The government is now working to study this situation from different points of view and offer a concept to our partners if this initiative can be implemented in the near future,” Honcharuk said at a meeting of the organizing committee for preparation and participation of Ukrainian athletes in the Games of the ХХХII Olympic Games and the XVI Paralympic Games 2020 in Tokyo (Japan).
According to Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine Volodymyr Borodiansky, traditionally preparations for such large-scale sporting events are conducted during 5-10 years.
“We propose, in order to determine the possibility of creating a joint holding of such games with the Republic of Belarus, to study in detail the resources we have, the experience of Belarus, the experience of other countries in preparation,” he added.
Borodiansky invited the national Olympic committees to create a joint working group to study such opportunities.
As reported, in September 2019, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated that the republic could hold the Olympic Games together with the Russian Federation or Ukraine. “Of course, it’s difficult for us to compete with the giants, but we can hold the Olympics, for example, with the Ukrainians or the Russians,” he said.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Ukraine and Belarus may jointly apply for hosting the Olympic Games in the future.
“The President of Ukraine offers us to think together about whether we can even apply for hosting the Olympic Games. We can do it, two countries can,” he said, speaking at the Second Forum of Regions of Ukraine and Belarus in Zhytomyr on Friday.
Belarus could host Olympic Games together with Russia or Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.
“Of course, it is hard for us to compete with giants, but we can host the Olympics together with, let us say, Ukrainians or Russians,” the BelTA state news agency cited Lukashenko as saying in Brest.
Facilities for the Olympic Games are ready in Belarus, he said. “We’re going to build the national soccer stadium and a facility for water sports now, and soccer remains. Russia has the infrastructure for soccer. We can easily host the Olympics with them. And here, in Belarus, we can host mostly the Summer Olympics with the help of Russians or Ukrainians. They have facilities we’re lacking,” Lukashenko said.
Belarus hosted the Second European Games in June.
