Shevchenko proud of Ukraine's Olympic efforts

Andriy Shevchenko believes Ukraine's performances in Paris have continued to help raise support for the nation

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00:00First of all, I'm very proud about how our team performed

00:06Because in the last two and a half years and been very difficult I know

00:13How much mean for Ukrainian people to see our athletes performing well and winning gold medal

00:18I think all the medal have a different story behind

00:22different humans a human story

00:26with all a

00:28Difficult moment when the athletes went through during this war. I

00:35For me each of them it's very important

00:40It's very important because we can promote our country here

00:46We're not only

00:49Competing in performance. We also represent our country with telling the story about Ukraine

00:55It's a lot of interest around Ukraine and

01:00Then also we're winning medal would obviously helping a lot because people cheering

01:06People have interest for Ukraine. This is the reason

01:12Also for rest of the world support Ukraine and this very difficult time