Athletes prepare for World Championships in Oregon at Elite Athlete Training Center
Viktor Bryzhin and Olga Vladykina won Olympic track gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. Bryzhin was on the 4x100-meter relay team. Vladykina won the individual 400 meters and got the baton in the anchor leg of the 4x400 at roughly the same time as American legend Florence Griffith-Joyner, then pulled away from her with one of the fastest relay legs ever recorded to help set a new world record.
“The second thing I want to prove is that Ukrainian people are strong and can compete, and can fight.”You could hear the anger in her voice, see the sorrow in her eyes, sense the resentment and resilience in her mannerisms. The serenity of the training center, with its sun-splashed facilities overlooking a tranquil reservoir, seem a world away from the charred buildings of Mariupol and Kharkiv. But the air raid sirens, the scramble into underground bomb shelters, the tanks rumbling through the streets, the frayed nerves, the palpable fear are never far away with modern technology.
No one might have a bigger distraction than Bryzhina. The area where they originally lived in Luhansk fell under occupation in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists took control of the area, so they moved to a Ukrainian part of the city, into a large house in the woods.
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