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Ukrainian Olympic artistic swimmers take part during a training in Kyiv on April 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When Russia invaded last February, Ukraine's Olympic artistic swimmers Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva received a barrage of messages from Russian athletes, reassuring them Moscow's forces were actually coming to their aid. But as Russian missiles rained down on their home city of Kharkiv, the 21-year-old twins fled, upending their training regimes and piling the stress of war on the athletes hoping to steal gold at the upcoming Games in Paris. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
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