PARIS (AP) Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian world-record high jumper, may have just won Olympic gold , but she and other winning athletes from Ukraine are not resting in Paris theyre trying to shine the spotlight on the war tearing apart their country.

The Olympic Games are about peace, she said. But Russia didnt stop, and during these Games, there were massive attacks on Ukrainian cities.

These missile strikes forced Mahuchikh to spend the last two and a half years mostly abroad as she focused on her main goal the Olympic gold, which she won Sunday.

She trained far from her family , including in Portugal, Estonia, Belgium and Germany. She occasionally comes to her hometown of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, but every time she left the country, she didnt know when she would return.