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Children walk through Dynamo Stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is seen on Friday, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A house destroyed by a Russian missile where Kateryna Tabashnyk's mother was killed on Aug. 18, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is seen on Friday, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, sits for a portrait Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. On the eve of the war, which started Feb. 24, 2022, Ukraine cancelled its athletics championship and Tabashnyk was in Kharkiv. The threat posed by thousands of Russian troops at the border, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from her hometown, was real. But Tabashnyk said, “I was 100% sure that this could not happen.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Rescue workers clear rubble on Aug. 18, 2022, at the home of Kateryna Tabaschnyk's mother, who was killed in a Russian Rocket attack in Kharkiv. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk exercises as part of her training to qualify for the Paris Olympics, at a gym in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk warms up on a beach in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Focus and drive is a requirement for all high-level athletes. But the 30-year-old’s mind wanders often to her bombarded native city of Kharkiv and the Russian missiles that have stolen so much: her mother, her apartment, a pain-free childhood for her nephew, even the fields where she trained. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk runs at the stadium that she shares with other Ukrainians training to qualify for the Paris Olympics in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. She and the other Ukrainian athletes training in Monte Gordo have formed something of a support group. They talk about parents, homes, and Russian attacks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk exercises as part of her training to qualify for the Paris Olympics, at a gym in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. “The last two years have been like an inferno where everything is burning. And you are burning in it no matter where you are,” Tabashnyk said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, stands for a portrait Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk exercises as part of her training to qualify for the Paris Olympics, at a gym in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, poses for a portrait Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk walks along a beach in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Ukrainian high jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk runs at the stadium that she shares with other Ukrainians training to qualify for the Paris Olympics in Monte Gordo, Portugal, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)