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For the first time these athletes held high the flag of a country that was not Ukraine. As they had never thought they competed for an Albanian city.
Ukrainian athletes participated in the 84th Albanian Athletics Championship with the colors of Elbasan. Fugitives from the war in their country for two months, 10 Ukrainian athletes are staying in Elbasan.
“In Albania we are having a good experience. I have done a good race though not in my discipline. But anyway we in Albania are training in a clear sky, without war“, Says Valentin Loboda.
“It is very important to take part in this race because since the war in Ukraine started a few months ago, we could not do our training, we did not even have places to train. So thank you to Albania and the Albanian Olympic Committee for giving us this opportunity to stay and train in Albania. “says Maria Larina.
The Albanian Athletics Federation in cooperation with the NOC and the Municipality of Elbasan has created the conditions for Ukrainian athletes to train and participate normally in national competitions.
The championship also brought some sports innovations where two national records were broken by Luiza Gega from Tirana and Franko Burraj from Vllaznia.
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