coughed on Alia from Ukraine, is the gold medalist at a gymnastics World Cup event in Doha. You've never heard of him. It's gymnastics, not a massive crowd sport with something we look at every couple of years when the Olympics pops up and we marvel at what the body can achieve. We hear from Covington not just because he achieved this against the backdrop of the war, but because he didn't punch the bronze medal winner who's from Russia. Dear Keith, I just want to thank my coaches and all the people around me for their support at this difficult time. I appreciate that sport is one of the arenas that should bring people together and I hope to continue to represent Ukraine with dignity on grace. On the one hand, it's just sport. On the other hand, it is a stage where we represent ourselves at our best, that his own Dear captain, I have to admire you. You walked onto the podium after keeping your concentration throughout the event to take the top prize. Maybe you didn't see what the bronze medal winner had done. The Russian gymnast had taped his head to his chest, which is a pro war symbol. There are many moments throughout the history of sports, where oppressed people were able to remind the world of who they could be on while they did that, the competitors usually applauded them. In this case, your opponents sought to support the invaders. Now he's young, and he's no doubt funded by Russian institutions, and he may not have had a choice. But we may never know. This may have gone somewhere to you thinking when you didn't punch him. But if he did have a choice, well, Zed's dead baby says dead.
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