2022 Olympics: Ukraine’s national team to miss freestyle team tournament .
The Ukrainian national team in freestyle (acrobatics) will not perform in the team tournament at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Ukraine is not on the start list for the competition, as evidenced by data from the Olympics website. Ukrainians are forced to miss these competitions due to a series of positive tests for COVID-19, the NOC of Ukraine said .
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According to the competition schedule, 6 countries will take part in the team tournament, including Belarus, Canada, OCD, Switzerland, the USA and China.
Apart from Ukraine, the national team of Kazakhstan will not start.
Ukraine went to the 2022 Olympics with five ski acrobats – the current Olympic champion Alexander Abramenko, Dmitry Kotovsky and Alexander Okipnyuk, as well as Anastasia Novosad and Olga Polyuk. They had to compete in three tournaments in Beijing: team, men’s and women’s.
According to the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, three Ukrainian freestyle wrestlers – Dmytro Kotovsky, Anastasia Novosad and Oleksandr Okipnyuk – received positive tests for coronavirus just before the start and therefore the Ukrainian team is not able to put a full team of 3 freestyle wrestlers and start team competitions.
Currently, the athletes are isolated and provided with proper medical care.
The NOC of Ukraine noted that Ukrainian fans had high hopes for this discipline.
For reference
The Beijing Winter Olympics will run from February 4 to 20. The national team of Ukraine will be represented by 45 athletes in 12 disciplines. It was expected that a total of about 3,000 athletes would take part in the Games, as well as coaches, officials, federation representatives and the media.
Source: Ukrgate
