The IOC offers the following Video News Release to all news agencies, broadcasters and online news platforms free of charge. STORY SCRIPT: International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Sergii Bubka has visited Ukrainian athletes in his homeland and across Europe as part of the organisation’s extensive effort to provide aid and support to competitors from the war-torn nation. In special IOC missions, Olympic pole vault champion Bubka, President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Ukraine, has met the athletes who are being helped, and inspected the conditions and facilities where they are living and training during the time of crisis.
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