UKRAINE’S Olga Kharlan may have missed out on the individual Olympic gold medal she craved but she said her bronze in the sabre final was “really special”, dedicating it to her war-torn country.
The 33-year-old produced a remarkable comeback from 11-5 down to wrest the bronze from South Korea’s Choi Se-bin in front of a crowd containing her mother, sister and nephew – her father is not able to leave Ukraine.
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