Lime Tree Beach Resort St Thomas 2024-07-09 Lime Tree Beach Resort St Thomas - Last update images today Lime Tree Beach Resort St Thomas Hamilton Ending 945-day Drought Makes For 'most Special' Win PARIS -- Ukraine's best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has a good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country. At a Diamond League meet in Paris, Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics. The previous record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987. "Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump 2.07 meters and maybe 2.10 meters," Mahuchikh said. "Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics." The 22-year-old Mahuchikh and world indoor champion Nicola Olyslagers both cleared 2.01 meters on their second attempt. After Olyslagers failed three times at 2.03, Mahuchikh cleared that height to secure victory. She then cleared 2.07 meters to set a Ukrainian record and had the bar raised to 2.10, which she cleared on her first try. Mahuchikh left her hometown of Dnipro shortly after the war with Russia began. Like virtually all elite athletes in her country, she has been training in foreign countries while keeping tabs on the war back home. She has been outspoken about the role Ukrainian sports can play to give signs of hope to those fighting for Ukraine's survival. "We all are fighting for our people, for our soldiers," she said last month after defending her European title. "We want to show every person in the world that we will continue fighting, that war in Ukraine it's not finished, unfortunately. We should fight in every field to show that Ukraine is strongest." World Athletics, which runs track on a global basis, has banned all Russian athletes from next month's Olympic track meet, a decision Mahuchikh agrees with. Just last weekend, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe visited Kyiv and reiterated his support for the Ukrainian effort in the war. "Nothing I witnessed tells me that the decision we've taken is anything other than the right decision, but the right decision on behalf of our sport," Coe said. 004 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Maxresdefault 021 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Limetree News Article Hero 1990x810 Maxresdefault 50 Limetree20beach 40 1432929825 1d73e679c07acf4b98a8178c49ab512f 304394 ?1 020 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity 013 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Caption ?w=1400&h= 1&s=1 Limetree Beach St Thomas 50 Limetree Beach 17 1432929825 Eec0e62f 07e2 4725 Ab52 F17917f05959 ?im W=720 Lime Tree Hotel Entrance B4324639 A9ec 4c6b 8f2b 6df135e66418 20210502 131338 Largejpg ?w=700&h= 1&s=1 Limetree Beach St Thomas 002 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity 009 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Caption ?w=1200&h= 1&s=1 Fa2ae25e Z Fea3ee40 Z Lime Tree Bay Resort ?w=1400&h= 1&s=1 Caption ?w=1400&h= 1&s=1 0bf3403b Z 019 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Limetree Beach Resort ?w=1100&h= 1&s=1 018 Lime Tree Gallery Amenity Lime Tree Hotel 25 Conde Nast Traveller 11dec20 Pr 003 Lime Tree Gallery Studio Bath Limetree Slide1 Limetree Beach Resort ?w=2000&h= 1&s=1