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Ukraine gets sports attention while in a war. WOW!

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Ukrainian refugee Yastremska takes Zhang to 3 sets in Lyon​

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The 21-year-old Yastremska only fled her home in war-torn Odessa, Ukraine, last week following the Russian invasion. She spent two nights sheltering in an underground car park from missile strikes before escaping with her 15-year-old sister Ivanna through Romania while their parents stayed behind in Odessa. The 140th-ranked Yastremska had a remarkable run to her fifth career final after being given a wild card to play at the tournament. She beat second-seeded So ran a Cirstea 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 in the semifinals.​


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Their hearts are in Ukraine. But their fight will be in an NC pool, for NCAA titles.​


Just after 10:30 p.m. one night nearly two weeks ago, when Vlada Maznytska normally would be trying to rest peacefully ahead of a 6 a.m. Queens University of Charlotte swim team practice, she received a text message from a friend that sent her into a full-blown panic attack. She is a wualifiers for the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s swimming and diving championships, which begin Wednesday in Greensboro — that their coaches and teammates were counting on them to help vie for team titles. Competing is actually, in a way, the best and the most important thing they could do right now to support and raise awareness for their country.

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^Yeah right. Save your ass while Russia takes over your country. The good ole USA will take you and what's left of your family in our house. Just what we need.., more immigrants being supported by the government.
 

Ukraine gets $700K donation from Grand Slams, WTA, ATP and ITF​


A charitable donation of $700,000 to aid humanitarian relief efforts via Global Giving's Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund and to support the Ukraine Tennis Federation was made Tuesday by the four Grand Slam tournaments and the sport's governing bodies.The WTA, ATP and the International Tennis Federation joined the groups that run the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in each giving $100,000 to help those affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 7.5 million children are at risk with the escalating conflict.

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New York Jets donating $1 million to aid relief efforts in Ukraine​


Suzanne Johnson's thoughts often turn to her late parents when she sees the heartbreaking video clips and news reports out of Ukraine. Sometimes it's too much to take. And she just desperately wants to help. It all hits close to home for Johnson, the wife of New York Jets owner Woody Johnson. Her mother, Marie, was born to Ukrainian immigrant parents, while her father, Stefan Ircha, was from Ternopil -- a town outside of battle-rocked Kyiv -- and emigrated by himself to the United States when he was 21. The Jets announced Tuesday a $1 million donation to help aid the people of Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia on Feb. 24. The donation will be split among several organizations over the next year, with each receiving $100,000.

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Wimbledon bars players from Russia, Belarus due to war in Ukraine​


Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year due to Russia's "unjustified" invasion of Ukraine, the All England Club announced Wednesday. "Given the profile of The Championships in the United Kingdom and around the world, it is our responsibility to play our part in the widespread efforts of Government, industry, sporting and creative institutions to limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible," the All England Club said in a statement. "In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships.

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Wimbledon bars players from Russia, Belarus due to war in Ukraine​


Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year due to Russia's "unjustified" invasion of Ukraine, the All England Club announced Wednesday. "Given the profile of The Championships in the United Kingdom and around the world, it is our responsibility to play our part in the widespread efforts of Government, industry, sporting and creative institutions to limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible," the All England Club said in a statement. "In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships.

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Players Barred from Wimbledon​


Nine players from Russia or Belarus currently in the top 30 of the men's or women's tennis rankings will be among those barred from Wimbledon following the All England Club's announcement.

ATP Players
No. 2 Daniil Medvedev
No. 8 Andrey Rublev
No. 26 Karen Khachanov
No. 30 Aslan Karatsev

WTA Players
No. 4 Aryna Sabalenka
No. 15 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
No. 18 Victoria Azarenka
No. 26 Daria Kasatkina
No. 29 Veronika Kudermetova
 

Finland, Sweden banning Russian league players from national hockey teams​


Finland and Sweden will ban from their national ice hockey teams any of their players who appear in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League from next season. Both ice hockey federations announced their decisions on Monday, two days after the KHL season ended." The position of the Finnish Hockey Association is that players playing in Russia next season will not be able to play for the national team," the association said. Most foreign players left the KHL after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. Defenseman Mikko Lehtonen was one prominent Finn who stayed at SKA St. Petersburg to the end of the season.

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Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic slam Wimbledon ban on Russian players
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Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic criticized Wimbledon's decision to exclude Russian and Belarusian players from this year's tournament following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The two tennis greats said Sunday that Wimbledon had acted unfairly, with Nadal saying that the decision was "very unfair" to his Russian colleagues. The ATP and WTA tennis tours have both publicly criticized the All England Club's decision, which was announced April 20. Wimbledon starts on June 27.The prominent players affected by the ban include reigning US Open champion Daniel Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who are all from Russia. Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, which has aided Russian forces, would also be unable to play.
 

Ukrainian tennis player Lesia Tsurenko laments lack of support for her home country in her sport​


Words such as "invasion" and "politics," "ban" and "boycott" are suddenly a part of the daily discourse in tennis, as in many segments of society, really, and for Ukrainian pro player Lesia Tsurenko these are not abstract concepts. Her country is under attack from Russia. It weighs on her constantly. Taking the court to try to do her job, to try to swing a racket better than the woman across the net on any given day, is really the least of her concerns. And after losing to No. 1-seeded Iga Swiatek 6-2, 6-0 on Monday in the French Opens first round, Tsurenko described what she finds as disconcerting as anything: a lack of colleagues who have spoken out publicly about Russia's invasion or approached her to express sympathy or even simply discuss what is happening in Ukraine.

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Nadya Karpova: The Russia striker speaking out against war in Ukraine​


Since Russia invaded Ukraine in the early hours of 24 February, only a small number of Russian sportspeople have spoken out against it. Among the country's current international footballers, just three have done so. From the Russian men's team, Dynamo Moscow's Fedor Smolov posted a 'No war!' message on Instagram in February. He has been silent since. Aleksandr Sobolev from Spartak Moscow also posted a message on the day the war started but deleted it a few hours later. Karpova, who plays club football for Espanyol in Spain, is the third. She is the only member of the Russian women's team to have voiced her opposition, and she does so almost every day. Since the war started, more than three months ago, she has been posting anti-war messages on Instagram, where she has 143,000 followers.

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Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended through at least July 2, Russian state news reports​


Brittney Griner latest: Phoenix Mercury get State Dept. briefing and Hall of Famer calls for release​

US basketball star Brittney Griner -- who has been held in Russia since February on accusations of drug smuggling will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, after a Russian court extended her detention, Russian state news agency TASS reported Tuesday. Griner, 31, has been officially classified as "wrongfully detained," a US State Department official told CNN in May. Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February, when Russian authorities claimed she had cannabis oil in her luggage and accused her of smuggling significant amounts of a narcotic substance, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and star of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury plays in Russia during that league's offseason."We are on Day 116 since BG has been wrongfully detained," Mercury head coach Vanessa Nygaard said, adding, "She's our teammate, she's an American and we want her back home." For star guard Diana Taurasi, the State Department's announcement that Griner's detention was wrongful signaled to the team that officials are taking the situation seriously, she said Monday.

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NHL says Stanley Cup will not be allowed in Russia this summer for player celebrations​


When the Stanley Cup makes its way around the globe this summer to spend a day with each member of the championship organization, it will not travel to Russia. NHL officials informed both the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche that Russian or Belarussian players on either roster will have to wait an undetermined amount of time before getting the chance to take the Cup to his home country.“With respect to this summer, the Cup isn’t going to Russia or Belarus,” NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said during a news conference ahead of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. “To that extent, we may owe a Cup trip in the future. That can happen like we did with the pandemic, but it’s not happening this summer."

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