Hurdler Anna Ryzhykova trains at the sports center in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Ryzhykova lost a mentor who helped ignite her passion for sports. Coach Valentyn Vozniuk and his wife, Iryna Tymoshenko, were among 46 people killed by a supersonic missile that slammed into an apartment building in Dnipro in 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Hurdler Anna Ryzhykova walks on a platform before departing for Poland at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. “Our victories are to draw attention to Ukraine,” Ryzhykova says. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
High jumper Oleh Doroshchuk lifts weights during a training session at a regional youth sport school for the Olympics, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Hurdler Anna Ryzhykova trains at the sports center in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
High jumper Oleh Doroshchuk changes his clothes in a dressing room with a sign that reads in Ukrainian, "Shelter," prior a training session at regional youth sport school for the Olympics, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Doroshchuk says he’s been forced to look inside himself, questioning whether it’s morally right that he’s “just training” when other men are defending front lines. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Hurdler Anna Ryzhykova trains at the sports center in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Her competitions are no longer strictly an individual battle, but war on a different front. Her goal is not just gold, but also to rivet global attention on her country’s fight for survival against Russia. “You’re not doing it for yourself anymore,” she says. “Winning a medal just for yourself, being a champion, realizing your ambitions — it’s inappropriate.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
FILE - Gold medalist, Zhan Beleniuk of Ukraine, celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the men's 87kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. An Associated Press analysis found Russia's war is making it increasingly difficult for Ukraine, once a post-Soviet sports power, to get those headline-capturing medals. Ukrainian performances began dipping after 2014, the year of Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Graphic shows medals won by Ukraine during the Summer Olympics dating back to 1996
Hurdler Anna Ryzhykova looks for her seat in a train before her departure for Poland at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. “It will be challenging at this Olympics because there is no room for defeat or injury,” she says. “It’s tough to cope with, but it’s both motivation and responsibility.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
High jumper Oleh Doroshchuk works out during a training session at Zirka stadium, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
High jumper Oleh Doroshchuk holds a gold medal he won during a competition in Bakhmut, Ukraine, during an interview in his house, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. Russia occupied Bakhmut in spring of 2023 after the city was reduced to rubble in months-long grinding battle. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
High jumper Oleh Doroshchuk trains at Zirka stadium, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Coach Hennadii Zditovetskyi, left, watches high jumper Oleh Doroshchuk during a training session at a regional youth sport school for the Olympics, in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Doroshchuk, one of Ukraine’s brightest prospects in Olympic track and field in Paris, has learned to ignore aid raid sirens that blare over his hometown in central Ukraine, so they don’t interrupt his training. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)