{"id":394398,"date":"2018-11-25T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/ukrainian-olympic-champions-gather-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:00:15","slug":"ukrainian-olympic-champions-gather-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukrainian-olympic-champions-gather-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Olympic Champions Gather In Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njIRzPtWqTQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Ukrainian champions and prize winners of the 1968-1988 Olympic Games met in Kyiv to celebrate the anniversaries of the competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine brought the Olympians together for the reunion. At the Games in Mexico City in 1968, Ukrainian athletes, who competed as part of the Soviet Union\u2019s team, won 31 medals, 14 of which were gold. Fifty years later, they still remember the hospitality of Mexican fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What shocked me most were people who spent their nights near the Olympic Village to get an autograph or souvenirs in the morning. They slept there, they came with their children and brought pillows and blankets to stay warm,&#8221; Hryhoriy Kriss, an Epee Fencing champion at the 1968 Olympic games said.<\/p>\n<p>Gymnast champion\u00a0at the 1968 Olympic\u00a0Games Liudmyla Turyshcheva won nine medals at three Olympic Games. She debuted at the competition in Mexico City at the age of 16. Turyshcheva said that Mexicans serenaded by the windows of Soviet gymnasts in the Olympic Village.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my Olympic baptism. Those Games were the most fun, the most musical, with serenades. And, of course, it was the beginning of my professional career, I won a gold medal in the team round,&#8221;\u00a0Turyshcheva said.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolf Povarnitsyn was the first athlete to reach two meters and 40 centimeters in a high jump competition in 1985. Three years later, he won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. He brought a unique souvenir from the competition &#8211; a flag of the Soviet Union\u2019s team. He took it down from the pole after the closing ceremony, right in front of a shocked volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started to untie it quietly. A woman asked me: &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217; I said &#8216;I\u2019m untying the flag.&#8217; &#8216;But why?&#8217; I said, &#8216;It\u2019s our flag.&#8217; She said, &#8216;No, it\u2019s ours.&#8217; I said, &#8216;It\u2019s our flag.&#8217; I folded it and the police ran after me. But it was hard to keep up with me at the time, they didn\u2019t catch me. I\u2019ve been keeping the flag since then. The flag of the last team of the Soviet Union,&#8221; Rudolf Povarnitsyn, the Bronze winner in athletics at the 1988\u00a0Olympic Games said.<\/p>\n<p>The USSR boycotted the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 1984, so for many athletes, the Games in Seoul were the only chance to win an Olympic medal. In 1988, pole vaulter Serhiy Bubka already held 18 world records and numerous champion\u2019s titles. The only thing he lacked was an award from the Olympics<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was only interested in Olympic gold. And now I only have one. That is why I\u2019m very happy that I became an Olympic champion. It\u2019s unforgettable,&#8221; Serhiy Bubka, athletics champion at the 1988\u00a0Olympic Games said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the athletes still work in sports as coaches or executives. 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