I came home inspired, with new goals and desires to train further. “It was the most important dream - to make it to the Olympic Games,” she said. She began to train in gymnastics at age four and her goal is to win a medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Varinska has already punched her ticket to next year's Olympic Games, holding off teammate Anastasia Bachinskaya at the 2019 World Championships to do so. Those European Championships, scheduled for 21-25 April in Basel, Switzerland, are set to be a Tokyo 2020 qualifier. But I think that the real European championship will be held in April next year.” “Of course, this will be good in any case if I manage to perform well and to win a medal. “I will honestly know that isn't a full-fledged European Championship,” she admitted. Varinska is realistic when discussing what a title this year would mean. 2 Lilia Podkopayeva won a total of 3 medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and she was the first multiple Olympic medalist from Ukraine. Yana Demyanchuk won the nation's last European title a year earlier on the beam. A total of 23 female gymnasts have represented Ukraine at the Olympics, but the only medalist is Lilia Podkopayeva. Natalia Kononenko picked up a bronze on the uneven bars that year. Though Ukraine ranks fifth in the overall women’s Europeans medal count, their blue and yellow flag has not been raised at the event since 2010. Ukrainian gymnast Diana Varinska: My motivation and goal is the Olympics It is going quite difficult, I just had a coronavirus roughly three weeks ago, Varinska told Olympic Channel last. There is a lot of pressure and the workload is not any less.” Ukrainian gymnast Diana Varinska comes to Mersin and the 2020 Women’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships with realistic expectations, having recently been forced to take time off after testing positive for COVID-19. “If it's happening, you just need to prepare and try to show your best. But since these competitions are happening, we did not see the point to refuse,” said Varinska of Ukraine’s decision to compete. “Many strong countries refused to compete. Those withdrawals provide Varinska, somewhat ironically given her own bout of the virus, a chance at returning her country to the medals podium. That’s because coronavirus concerns have forced many nations, including France, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, and the Netherlands, to withdraw from the event. Her 15th place finish in the all-around at the 2019 World Championships is highest among anyone set to participate this week. Still, Varinska will be among the favourites of those left in the field, starting Thursday 17th December. In general, it is always difficult to recover, and from a disease it is twice as difficult.” Then I returned to training and it felt quite difficult. “As I was preparing I felt sick, and for 14 days, I stayed at home doing self-isolation. “It is going quite difficult, I just had a coronavirus roughly three weeks ago,” Varinska told Olympic Channel last week. Ukrainian gymnast Diana Varinska comes to Mersin and the 2020 Women’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships with realistic expectations, having recently been forced to take time off after testing positive for COVID-19.
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