Sports

**Sports**
Post descriptions of the most popular sports in your country. Add photos if available.  Since ancient times Ukrainians were skilM archers, horsemen  and  wrestlers. In the late XIX century European sports and games were introduced here; football and wrestling  became the most popular.  Kyiv's famous soccer team "Dynamo" won the European Cup Holder's Cup twice, in 1975 and 1985. Oleg Blokhin and Ihor Bielanov were named Europe's best soccer players.  The "Spartak" handball team from Kyiv, led by Senior Coach Ihor Turchyn, has won 13 European Champion's Cups. Zinayida Turchyna and Larysa Karlova were named best players in the World and European Championships several times.  The Ukrainian school of gymnastics is recognized the world over. Its representatives—Iryna Deriuhina, Oleksandra Tymoshenko, Oksana Skaldina and others — have won World and European Championships. Larysa Latynina has the longest history of records in the Olympic Games: 18 medals, including 9 gold, 5 silver, and 3 bronze,  Valery Borzov, the famous sprinter, won 2 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze medals at the 20th and 21st Olympic Games. Serhiy Bubka, eight times world champion and Olympic champion in the pole- vaulting holds 35 world records. He has been named World's Best Athlete. Having just proclaimed  its independence, Ukraine sent the national team to the 1992 Olympic Games, where young figure skater Oksana Baiul won the first gold medal for independent Ukraine.