Heroes in Rio, Ukraine's disabled struggle at home

Dmytro Shchebetyuk, 26, an archer on the Paralympics reserve team and co-founder of "Dostupno UA", a project monitoring accessibility for people with disabilities, agrees that he finds it hard to come back to Ukraine after travelling abroad. ...

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1.
 
USA 
46 37 38
2.
 
Great Britain
27 23 17
3.
 
China
26 18 26
4.
 
Russia
19 18 19
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Germany
17 10 15
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Japan
12 8 21
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France
10 18 14
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South Korea
9 3 9
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Italy
8 12 8
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Australia
8 11 10



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