A long, complicated and dangerous journey, in the opposite direction to that towards which hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the war have walked. In front of the news that came from his country, Olga Kharlan, extraordinary fencing champion, probably the strongest saber in the world, has decided to leave to go back to her family, who managed to escape from Kiev to the western part of Ukraine. And she documented her journey with a reel posted on her Instagram profile.
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Six times world champion, eight times European champion, one Olympic gold medal team, Olga Kharlan has been commuting for some years between Kiev and Bologna, where she lives with her partner Luigi Samele, double silver medal in the men’s saber at Tokyo 2020. She left Bologna, with a flight to Sibiu, Romania. She was welcomed and helped by the Romanian Olympic Committee, she almost reached the border, but her family was unable to reach her, stopping in Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 inhabitants.
Kharlan waited patiently for one night, the next morning she got up determined to cross the border on foot. As she walked alone towards Ukraine, near Chernivts she saw her countrymen moving in the opposite direction. A very long journey, full of worry and fear, the time of a hug to mum and dad and then leave again with sister Tanya and grandson. In fact, Olga Kharlan’s father is 59 years old, and is obliged by martial law not to leave the country to respond to a possible call from the army. His wife decided to stay close to him.
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The Kharlan sisters have therefore departed, crossing the border again to get to Budapest, where Samele went to pick her up. Hence another journey, towards Bologna, with a heart still swollen with concern for parents. Kharlan and Samele are also among the promoters of a fundraiser started a few days ago in collaboration with other fellow fencers (the Italians Paolo Pizzo and Enrico Garozzo, the latter’s Estonian girlfriend Erika Kirpu) to help Ukrainian colleagues. A crowdfunding that at the moment has already exceeded 40 thousand euros and which aims to support athletes during and after the military and humanitarian crisis that has hit their country.
Source: Vanity Fair
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