eleonora chek, a children's basketball coach, we are in touch, we welcome you on the air, we congratulateo the capital for the tournament well, first of all, when the war started, our girls were sleeping in their beds when he called us, our parents called us, we gathered together as a coaching staff on the first floor and thought what to do with us and it was february 24th . at first, we went to the bomb shelter in the neighboring maternity hospital , when you started to hear the explosions only under damn, it wasn't there in the afternoon. well, nothing. no, no , we heard explosions during the day, but there were fewer of them, in my opinion, already during the day . all the children could not be located in the warehouses of our bases, and the kyiv team, the parents immediately came and took them away, and the team from rivne, too, there were traffic jams on the roads . team with ivan frankivska and that's how many athletes there were, uh, these are children born in 2009-10, that is, 12-13 years old, that's right, at that time, yes, and we first asked for a bomb shelter in the basement,

and we are each trying on our front approaching her, it was eleonora chek, a basketball coach, and i was not afraid of this word heroine , thank you very much, and the marathon, come on, ukrainian sports are going through difficult times, like all ukrainians, hundreds of sports facilities in ukraine, if not destroyed, were damaged by enemy russian missiles, and our athletes indomitable, they continue to train and defend the country's honor at international sports competitions in war conditions, let's talk further. and in our studio today, one of the most famous kharkiv athletes, the triathlete kovalenko, i'm you welcome to the studio. good day. you ran the iron man triathlon distance in the summer. it seems to be the most difficult thing in sports, so let's explain to the audience that you need to run, swim and ride a bike correctly. everything is correct and this is the most difficult distance. one day, which is held in competitions, it is three and eight kilometers, 3-9 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42 km of running , marathon distances a-a, that is, how many kilometers in