00:00I
00:36We met, suddenly we didn't found a common ground, and...
00:40How would you describe your treatment this week from the IOC?
00:44Unfair.
00:47To stand defiant like you did, do you think you did the right thing again?
00:52Yes, if to be shortly, yes, because I'm defending my rights, I didn't violate any rules,
00:59so, yeah, I stand for what I believe is right.
01:03And, yeah.
01:06How athletes like you can maybe prevent getting caught up in the military?
01:11To be honest, I get some taste, so I did three official training runs.
01:16I really like the track, I really had great results.
01:20On the last training day, I showed the best result in the run,
01:24and according to what I see today,
01:28I really think that we could be in a medal rivalry.
01:31And, of course, as an athlete, I always was dreaming about Olympic medal,
01:37and it's also like a feeling that it was taken away from me.
01:41So, athletes should be...
01:45What is it?
01:45Are you ready?
01:46Are you ready?
01:49Terrible.
01:50So, you can imagine, I'm a professional athlete,
01:52and I spent hours of trainings every day for four years,
01:57going through the whole of the world, competing in all the World Cups,
02:01to be able to be here today to compete on Olympic Games,
02:04on the biggest event of the four years,
02:08and I was disqualified, and I cannot understand even why.
02:12And, to be honest, I wasn't even in areas where athletes are not allowed to do any expressions.
02:19So, it's another question, like, what did I violate?
02:23We could be in a medal rivalry, and, of course, as an athlete.
02:28So, athletes, athletes should be treated fairly, equally, and, yeah,
02:39that's, I think, if, if, if we had, if we had been treated in a fair way,
02:48then we will not have this situation.
02:50We will, we would not have this situation at all.
02:52So, um...
02:55I was dreaming about Olympic medal, and also, like, a feeling that it was...
02:59No, it's, it's a wild week, and definitely my, my life now is changing,
03:05and I cannot understand in a better way or worse, and, uh,
03:08it's, it's, it's too much definitely for, for, like, three days.
03:12Um, yeah, I just want to memorize my fellow athletes.
03:17I want to be part of Olympic Games and to compete,
03:19and, uh, to try to get my chance to win a medal.
03:22It's a day to compete on Olympic Games and the biggest event, uh,
03:28of the four years, and, uh, yeah, to be honest, I cannot understand
03:31for what I was, uh, suspended, and, uh, I, I still try to figure out it.
03:39And, uh, today was very difficult day emotionally and physically.
03:42Uh, now we're, uh, as I told you before, so, uh, now we're, uh, looking an option
03:49to appeal to CAS, uh, but, yeah, I need to, to, to, to learn some information
03:56from me, some new information, how to do it, uh, how process looks like,
04:00and, uh, yeah.
04:12Uh, yeah.
04:13Uh, yeah.
04:17For Father, like, it's always, uh, it's also dream of his, like, to, to become,
04:21that I'm, and became a medalist, and, uh, it's, I think, a very hard moment for Father.
04:26And, uh, yeah, but, uh, I hope we will, we will, uh, go through it together.
04:30And, uh, as we always do, uh, we became, and, uh, we started this beautiful sport
04:35of skeleton in Ukraine.
04:37It was first to do it on a professional level.
04:39Now we had, uh, a great team.
04:41We had, uh, I would say great achievements, great results in the, in the last years.
04:47And, uh, I'm really proud of work what we did, and I believe we had, uh, much more to come.
05:21It's a good question, so I'm, I'm really, like, not a warrior.
05:25Yeah.
05:25That's incredible.
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