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Former pole vaulter Yelena Issinbayeva
She has now ended her active career, but: the two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion has been a member of the IOC since 2016. In the same year, she traveled with other athletes to Syria to a base of the Russian army.
"Every takeoff of a jet was like a lullaby for us, which we waited for so we could fall asleep," she said at the time about the stay in Syria...
