50 displaced Ukrainian athletes, coaches and family members have been invited to make Utah their temporary home. They will spend the summer living and training here thanks to an effort coordinated and paid for by the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation.
And when President Joe Biden said in late March that the United States welcome in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, Gov. Spencer Cox said Utah’s doors were “wide-open.”
The next wave of refugees will be associated with Ukraine’s aerial and freestyle ski teams. They will mostly live in Utah Olympic Park housing and will train on the park’s air bags and jump pool. Expected to arrive in early June, the group may include. Abramenko won gold in aerials at the 2018 Olympics and silver in Beijing in February — as Ukraine’s only medalist.
Gold medal winner Oleksandr Abramenko, of Ukraine, celebrates after the men's aerial final at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Putintseva and her teammates got out March 15. Lill, who just took the reins in January and was still living in his home in Estonia,to arrange for the nine athletes to leave to attend a competition. That process wasn’t without its entanglements. Ukraine has banned men ages 18-60 from leaving in case they are needed to fight in the war. Not until they received a special exemption from the country’s minister of sport could Shchur and most of the rest of the men’s team depart.
“They are stressed all the time,” Lill said through a translator. “They lost a lot of weight when they first moved out of Ukraine.”
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