In August 2024, Russian and Ukrainian media reported an error made by Eurosport - it was argued that on his site the place of birth of the gymnast Maria Vysochanskaya, who participated in the Paris Olympiad, was designated as “Lvov (Russia)”. We decided to check if this is really so.
On August 10, many sports and socio-political publications wrote about the gross error on the channel’s website. Among them are Russian "Sport-Express" And "Arguments and facts", As well as Ukrainian Tribuna, NV And Liga.net.
The news about the error on the EUROSPORT website began to be distributed on August 10 - on the penultimate day of the Olympics, when the Ukrainian team participated In the final rhythmic gymnastics tournament in group all -around. It was then that screenshots appeared on the network with the page of the Vysochanskaya profile on Eurosport.
“Verified” did not find at the EUROSPORT pages of athletes in whom the country of birth would be indicated in this format. Sometimes the city of birth is not at all called, in rare cases a country is indicated - for example, among Russians, speakers Now for other prefabricated.
Anna Prakaten, who used to play for Russia and Belarus, and now for the national team of Uzbekistan, the profile says “Belarus Minsk”, but without brackets.
At the time of writing a analysis in the profile of Vysochanskaya It was indicatedthat its place of birth is Lviv, without clarification of the country.
However, survived Archive copies The pages on which it really was written "Lviv (Russia)." A similar signature is shown Dutch And Turkish EUROSPORT website versions.
If you look at the page code, it turns out that it provides for the Birth Country option, but it is blocked. In order to put the country after the city in brackets, it is enough to remove the box from the corresponding point.
Now in the code of the Page of the Profile of Vysochanskaya in brackets, Ukraine is indicated, but, obviously, on August 10 there was the name "Russia". That is, the error was made by EUROSPORT employee, intentionally or not is unknown.
Some Ukrainian users countedthat this cannot be an accident. Firstly, someone inscribed “Russia” instead of “Ukraine” in the profile of a Ukrainian athlete. Secondly, the family history of the gymnast makes it the potential goal of Russian propaganda: her father Oleg Vysochansky He fights now in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in 2014-2015 he defended the Donetsk airport.
Nevertheless, the inscription “Lviv (Russia)” in the profile of a Ukrainian athlete is not an invention of Russian propaganda, but a real mistake on the Eurosport website, subsequently corrected without any comments from the channel.
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