Russia's war has killed 462 Ukrainian athletes and coaches. How DARE the Olympics let in Vladimir Putin's pariah state, writes IAN HERBERT

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Russia's war has killed 462 Ukrainian athletes and coaches. How DARE the Olympics let in Vladimir Putin's pariah state, writes IAN HERBERT

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He was born on the same day as our youngest and could have been my child, or yours. A young man of abundant optimism who found a calling in sport, pursued it around athletics venues across eastern Europe and, had events taken a different course, would have been walking into the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony as a competitor, on Friday. He was Volodymyr Androshchuk, from Suslivtsi, a village of wheat, soya and barley fields in western Ukraine, and he seemed destined for the agricultural life until one of his junior schoolteachers was struck by his speed and pointed him in the direction of athletics club in the nearby town of Letychiv.
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