tv Sports Life Deutsche Welle June 18, 2022 6:15pm-6:31pm CEST
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hey, menez robin yarnell, my name is deanna law seeking. this is just like hundreds of thousands of my compatriots. i had to flee the worn ukrainian and i am 17 years old. i'm a restaurant and my dream is to be an olympic champion. this is my story voicemail study. ah ah. ah, this safe 1000 kilometers away from their hometown and la viv deanna. together with her mother and youngest sisters and the family cat vanya, this new makeshift home was actually the former office of marco mussa, a coach in wrestling club in berlin. he helped bring diana and her family to safety
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. so book this friday, it was about 3 days after the start of the war, marco just wrote to me and offered to bring me to berlin veneer for you. it is just a curse. i didn't know what i should do because i also at my mom and my little sister's, i was scared to leave them behind. and i wasn't sure what to do with me and it is not a sort of what the escamilla, my iep. then i have range the plan to my mom and decided to take her and my youngest sisters. so i wouldn't have to worry about that much. so they don't hear all of this and don't cry eve. marco then told me i could bring them to sandwiches a, but i think he, he said not long ago, diana was living a care free teenage life with her friends until war came and everything changed. it's only been a few days, but here in the white's room in berlin. everything feels so far away for deanna.
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marco has been a wrestling coach for 30 years. he's had good contacts in ukraine for a long time now. and diana is also no stranger to him. quite the opposite. diana is one of the biggest talents in ukrainian wrestling. in 2019, she won bronze at the under 15 european championships in krakow chess. la ya knew to cursor, to be perfectly honest, and i didn't expect marco to get in contact in the boise. i didn't expect that any one would get in touch and head. yeah, it's, it's as i live bulldog. yeah, i woke up to another air raid siren book and we were supposed to hide in an every child talk soon. so i got an e. yeah, it says starla is with
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a movie that not that of all. and when i looked at my phone and a message from mark hawthorne, if it is, i've read it and didn't expect it at all. he, i was so happy he am xhylia, knew chicklow marco is a very good person. he monica, this is for darcy. they meant the polish ukrainian border. marco picked them up and brought them to berlin to wrestling friends, sasha, and anya came later with the train. they've also been accommodated by club members of the berlin wildcats. yet the tough is the 1st to discuss. i was actually afraid that we would meet some very traumatized people on though it's now the case that trauma can occur much later on, but also does not right now. i feel like they're very stable also, it was also clear that they wanted to go straight into training after their arrival
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suggest deanna for sure. as ralph all of thought of class, this is a 4th laughter unclear to the others arriving relatively late last night or not. but they still wanted to go to the training hall and wanted to meet all the other wrestlers. i was you voicemail. i think that's a good sign, wasn't vision talking about with competitive athletes. what else are they supposed to do and they're not training in the cloud. lastly, what should they have? lutheran selves, denise could yen, but to day in the mood was good. after 4 hours of training, houston cleaning aunt disheveled, back to the last temporary home with bonia always the center of attention. why not vanya lifts our spirits? she has not us. la, she's like, i was stress relief. i supp. ah! but it's difficult to ignore what's happening back home. the war has torn the small family a pot. me that her. my dad couldn't come with
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us. oh, because he went to war to defend ukraine. oh, no. do see a lot of my friend states who are sasha saw and on yahoo 3 they were able to come over vague, but most of them stayed will visit the so they couldn't come here with me. does a part of i'm really worried about my dad. yeah. i'm scared. oh dies yesterday. ah, the family has no choice but to white. and hope that no bad news arrives. ah, he's only at the mark and doctors in general. i'm keeping in touch with relatives. and they tell me what's happening in ukraine right now. yeah. and i also read the
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news and then the long and it worries me, i'm always worried about was because wet, what i in the way it's very scary eve. but it was, i don't know periods for more directly here. so on the bahama. now this is darcy, i read about elsie, i visited, but i no longer see or hear the war myself that she saw you other mature in the budget to marco and the other club members want to help in what used to be the office kitchen that already planning the next steps, the immediate help for deanna and her family was just the beginning. the coach wants to help more athletes, coaches and families escaped the wool. as a dusty giga dimension of the community to wrestling community is almost like
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a family has leaked and crossed out on that's v as we don't have a lot of media publicity in our sport and, and on them. and many people aren't in a situation where they have a lot of money whatsoever, and dusty the, let's vanish, get to for food. so i wasn't shocked by the willingness to help in general, but the intensity and number of offers was a surprise fung dyer had me sh. and yes, it gives me goosebumps and it's just awesome. what is being given views on how many people are committed and involved? ada kadish ginza alt acidosis and fatima last thought gleeful food and v flu mentioned that younger human on mid morning following their traumatic escape. it helps to the 3 athletes have an immediate task to concentrate on. they joined the 1st group training session just 2 days after their arrival, the ukrainians, a guests of the berlin, wild cats the
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berlin club trains in a sports whole of a school. wrestling is only a fringe sport in germany, especially among girls in ukraine. it's much bigger. some of the world's most successful, restless hail from their ah squad of him mine it says what is my life novia i can't live without it was it was and i can't live without competing. i like wrestling a lot more here. who is this? the taste of victory, so to speak, at big waters. when you fight, when you, when, when you stand a talk, the podium and realized that you're the strongest and they play your anthem i, it's so good him, it's great to win a bad taste of victory. just can't be put into black slipper. that's lavano. here on the mats, diana and her friends aren't just seen as victims of war above all else. they're
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incredible role models. after the salenti, my nose is diluted her obama. she's up top talent once and i mean 3rd in the under 15 european championships and 2019 aunt. and from what i've seen, i've been running with her and i'm a marathon runner myself. and laura, she's faster than me. she gets away from me as a, with young mom. i me to of the goals assignment for my food delight being only 1.55 meters tall or from. and so her diligence, natural ability is and strand will need to know. and she has a chance to get to the very top, have to look at her guns for okay, i won't go in and pick gold medal to be an olympic champion and to go down in history so that everyone will know me from. it's also now up to marco when she can make it. he didn't just bring deanna to safety. he's also stepped in to replace her coach who has had to stay in ukraine. ah, he up to doesn't,
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tina i've been in contact with the coaches in ukraine, and most of them signed up for the army della, my snohomish for the army. they went to the weapons depot and they joined the war. so often it was god of the guns and in crickets will ah, it remains uncertain just how long deanna will stay in berlin and train with the wild cats. give the company you, do you understood? sometimes you bought them here. she gets the support that she needs to move forward in her sporting career, whose roots you find as good as she is. and it's likely she'll be on the opposing team in some tournament at some point in the future. and i'll finish that video for you. hopefully, she's competing for ukraine again or to london. and then the wrestlers from berlin will have a hard time against her job. either maybe will be better than to who knows what we
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don't know to day, what the future will bring. ah, a future with many uncertainties after training, the fears about war in their homeland to return. the friends can influence war and politics. but deanna's desire is clear. yeah. which is so i want to watch and soon it's sabrina and that ukraine will defeat rashana. russia should give back everything it took from us. you know this, i really want to return home to ukraine here to live over to see all my dear people, you know, the coaches wise and i want to keep wrestling for ukraine and, and get good result is quite sure does so, but most of all, so i just want to be back in ukraine, hasn't caught us citizen thought. what to look of agree. oh no one knows when deanna and her friends will be able to return home. but it's feared that it could take a long time. ah,
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