Vladyslava and Maryna Aleksiiva won the bronze medal in Tokyo and are training to do better in the 2024 Paris Olympics, despite concerns over Ukraine potentially withdrawing from the showpiece event
Far from home and fearful for their family they left behind, Ukrainian artistic swimmers Vladyslava and Maryna Aleksiiva are still daring to dream of winning medals at the Paris Olympics.
"I was a little bit nervous...," says Maryna and her voice trails off. Like the perfect partner, Vladyslava takes up the baton:"And it's stressful for us to be separated from our relatives because they are still in Ukraine, and yesterday there was a bombing, and there were destroyed houses in Uman and also in Kiev.
After Montpellier, where they won the women's duet free category, they will compete in Spain, Poland and then Japan, for the world championships in Fukuoka on July 14-30. "Some girls wrote to us to say 'don't worry, we will save you' during the first days of the war, 'don't worry, it's a safety operation'," says Maryna.
But in March the International Olympic Committee said they could return to competition as individual neutrals, providing they did not actively support the war.
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