At a war-ravaged sports center in Ukraine, the hope for Olympic glory persists

Lifestyle

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Young athletes in northern Ukraine spend their days cross-country skiing through a scorched forest, focused on their form — until a siren inevitably shatters the silence. They respond swiftly but without panic, ditching their skis and following coaches to an underground bomb shelter. It’s an ordinary training session at the complex that produced Ukraine’s first Olympic medalist. Sleeping children no longer dream of Olympic glory in the facility’s bombed-out dormitories,

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