CHRIS MEARS: Rio has always been there driving me to train harder and to compete as well as I can. It’s really pushed me. Now it’s becoming less of a dream and more of a reality.

I'm really looking forward to the Olympics - and it's crazy how quickly it's coming around - but at the moment I'm trying just to focus on the European Championships.

The 29-year-old Brit Greg Rutherford, also the reigning world and European champion, posted a season best of 8.31metres in the second round to dominate the event.

Since the announcement of our Wheelchair Basketball team for the Paralympics in Rio, I’ve been the subject of some of the group’s jokes.

Once the medals started coming in I wanted to be that person to stand on the podium – the success of the others really spurred me on. For every member of the track team to win a medal was unbelievable.

Britain has a stable of young sprinters that is the envy of the world, and Sportsmail has brought them together for a stunning photoshoot.

President Donald Trump (pictured) reportedly knew about the whistleblower complaint when he released military aid to Ukraine in September.

Veronika Didusenko, 24, has launched legal action in London claiming organisers are in breach of the Equalities Act 2010 and has demanded they change their 'outdated' entry criteria.

Three-year-old Sasha Soboleva (pictured left), was shot in the head on the back seat of his father's car (pictured top right) during a failed assassination attempt in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

Fabrizio Ravanelli has revealed his 'big dream' is to one day become coach of his favourite club Juventus. The former striker, known as the 'White Feather' was a prolific scorer for Juve.

Ekaterina, who is listed at Katya on Cinderella Escorts, is originally from the city of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine, but currently resides in the United States.

The elegant animal was spotted by a fan of the Maggie May singer, Dmitry Ivanov, as he drove from Keflavik to Vik in Iceland. He then stopped to take photographs of the horse.

New York Rep. Antony Brindisi says he will vote to impeach President Donald Trump. He was elected in 2018 with just 51 per cent of the vote, in a district Trump carried by 15 points two years earlier.

The US wants Ukraine to extradite Craig Lang (left), 29, so that he could face trial in Florida for his role in the murders of Serafin 'Danny' Lorenzo Jr (top right), 53, and Deana K. Lorenzo (bottom right), 50.

After a mostly quiet New Year's Day, President Trump started out the second day of 2020 on a Twitter tear.

Despite Adam Schiff leading the House impeachment inquiry into US President Trump allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine, not one of the three contestants recognised him.

Katya, 19, who is originally from the Ukraine but resides in the US, has reportedly sold her virginity for £1,026 million (1.2M Euro), after putting it up for sale through a notorious online escort agency.

House Democrats released the messages in a document dump on Friday, showing Parnas texting with Derek Harvey, a top Nunes aide.

Anna Krytska, 16, grabbed her father's arm after he came home drunk and tried to hit his wife Natalia, and shouted at him: 'You are not going to hurt her anymore!'

University of California experts showed that location-tagged tweets by Ukraine residents could have been used to map out sentiments towards Russia in real-time.

Former US VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter and their work in the Ukraine is 'relevant evidence' in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, one of the president's defense lawyers claim. 

Lyubov Ahuja has spent the past year-and-a-half in Wuhan studying a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the Tongji Medical College.

Aston Villa's £3million signing from Barcelona Louie Barry was on the scoresheet again after his heroics against Russia on Saturday as England U17s beat Ukraine 4-0 on Monday.

If you don't want to mark your match-up the same way as every other loved-up pair on Valentine's Day, pay close attention. Here we've rounded up ten lesser-known places linked to love around the globe.

Coronavirus hysteria in Europe continues as Poland's shut frontiers (pictured) cause huge traffic jams in Germany - while Serbia and Slovakia went into lockdown and Portugal closed its border.

Woman, named only as Galina, fell sick with coronavirus after a 19-day stay at a perinatal unit in Ukraine, gave birth to a baby girl, was rushed to intensive care, but died just hours later.

Provenance Hotels, the hotel chain Sondland founded, received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, a spokeswoman said. The chain has more than a dozen properties.

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