{"id":70339,"date":"2014-02-20T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=70339"},"modified":"2014-02-20T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:36:59","slug":"skier-out-of-olympics-citing-violence-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=70339","title":{"rendered":"Skier out of Olympics, Citing Violence in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Skier-Olympics-ukraine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70336\" alt=\"\u0564\u0561\u0570\u0578\u0582\u056f\u0578\u0580\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Skier-Olympics-ukraine.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Skier-Olympics-ukraine.jpg 630w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Skier-Olympics-ukraine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Skier-Olympics-ukraine-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian skier has withdrawn from the Olympics to protest the deaths of anti-government protesters in her country.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdana Matsotska tells The Associated Press &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to participate when in my country people die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old skier is refusing to ski in Friday&#8217;s slalom, her third and best event at the Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Matsotska says Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych &#8220;has to be jailed, and for a long time &#8230; for all the lives that he took.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matsotska wants to join protesters in Kiev&#8217;s Independence Square but says she&#8217;s been unable to book a flight home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Ukrainian skier has withdrawn from the Olympics to protest the deaths of anti-government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224],"tags":[7257,3299,7256,3081],"class_list":["post-70339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-citing-violence","tag-olympics","tag-skier","tag-ukraine","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}