This was reported by the press service of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.

It is noted that he awarded the medal of the first Olympic champion among men in the history of the performances of the national team of independent Ukraine, received the member of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic champion, the president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Sergey Bubka.

On this occasion, the blue-yellow flag was raised on the main sports ground and the national anthem of Ukraine.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, the Ukrainian athlete Alexander Abramenko received the first gold for Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Our athlete was second in the qualifying stage, but he managed to perform the most complicated pirouette without a single mistake, which was assessed by the jury with the highest score.