sport plays such an important identity-shaping role in Ukraine - athletes of different genders, ethnicities, skin colors helped to crystalize our feeling of national pride and what it means to be a Ukrainian in the last three decades since the end of the last Russian occupation. That's why it is no surprise that when another Russian assault started this year, thousands of Ukrainian athletes went to the frontline to defend Ukraine or rally global solidarity across the world — they know very well what's really at stake in this war. For this episode, we feature Vladyslav Heraskevych, a Ukrainian two-timeOlympian athlete and the first-ever Ukrainian skeleton racer.

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