Tennis player Elina Svitolina will carry the flag of Ukraine at the opening of the 2024 Olympics
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Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina will be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The ceremony will take place on July 26 at 20:30, and Svitolina will become the third Ukrainian woman to be entrusted with this honorable mission.
The XXXIII Summer Olympic Games will be solemnly opened in Paris on Friday. Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina will carry the flag of Ukraine at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Writes UNN with reference to Suspilne.
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Tennis player Elina Svitolina will carry the flag of Ukraine at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. She announced this in an interview. The opening ceremony of the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games will take place on Friday, July 26, at 20:30.
For reference
Elina Svitolina will become the third Ukrainian woman to be entrusted with carrying the national flag. During the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the flag was carried by swimmer Yana Klochkova. In Tokyo in 2021, it will be Olympic pistol champion Olena Kostevych.
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All the flag bearers of Ukraine at the Summer Olympics:
1996 - Serhiy Bubka
2000 - Yevhen Braslavets
2004 - Denis Silantiev
2008 - Yana Klochkova
2012 - Roman Gontyuk
2016 - Mykola Milchev
2021 - Olena Kostevych, Bohdan Nikishyn
Recall
UNN reported that 140 Ukrainian athleteswill compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris . Among them are athletes who survived the war, lost their loved ones and homes, but continue to fight for victory.
