PORTRAIT – Para-badminton champion in 2022, Oksana Kozyna aims for gold for the Paralympic Games in Paris without ever forgetting the war ravaging her country
His smile breaks the video screen. Oksana Kozyna, Ukrainian world champion para-badminton in 2022, illuminated the Creps d’Île-de-France for around ten days, as his determination and enthusiasm swept over those around him. “Ukrainians are super nice. There is a real human encounter with all the services here. We are at their service to help them prepare for the Olympic Games and Paralympics,” explains Michel Godard, director of the Île-de-France resource center for expertise and sports performance (Creps).
At 29, the Ukrainian sportswoman, who plays with a carbon prosthesis, in the SL3 category, where players are limited in their movement capacity, is ambitious. It measures the “luck and pleasure” of training in a country “without bombs or warning sirens”. “When the war started, I was stressed by these horrible noises. » Originally from Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine, Oksana Kozyna left her country in the spring of 2022, shortly after the start of the guerreand was welcomed to the north of France, where she now resides and trains.
“I grit my teeth”
From February 5 to 15, she was, with two other Ukrainian players(…) Read more on 20minutes
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