Last month, Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych was a skeleton racer hurtling his way around the Yanqing Sliding Centre at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Six weeks later, he was in a war zone handing out medical supplies.
Heraskevych made headlines in Beijing when he held up a"No War in Ukraine" banner to protest the impending Russian invasion, a nightmare realized when the conflict began less than two weeks later. Since then -- as has been the case for so many of his compatriots -- the 23-year-old's life has been turned upside down.
"Heraskevych added that he has spoken to a number of fellow athletes to discuss the conflict, alongside a number of media appearances to raise awareness of his country's plight."I've just been trying to work in my area, in sports," Heraskevych said."Everything feels so far away. Your whole life you try to achieve something and you go step by step, but this ladder is broken now and now your whole life goes in a different direction.
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