my name is yuliya levchenko, i am a track and field athlete, i specialize in high jumps, i am a medalist of the world championship and a finalist of the olympic games, and i also won the youth olympic games. games, i was born in the city of bakhmut and i really dreamed of coming there, but now this city no longer exists, i have nowhere to go. for me, the opportunity to be on the international stage, to appear in the uniform of the national team, is a chance to show that the ukrainian team, the country of ukraine, exists, that we have the right to perform, we have the right to the life that is available. we were afraid of all the terrible things that started to happen. at the beginning, when the full-scale invasion began, i thought that my sport was all there was to it, i didn't think that i would continue to do sports at all, then after a while, with the help of the whole world, i managed to return to training, to competition, but of course, in the first attempts to return to the competitive arena, they were very difficult. because you leave and you don't understand what you're doing her