Ukraine athletes leave Sochi Olympics reportedly in protest

“I don’t want to participate when in my country people die,” [she said].

The 24-year-old skier is refusing to ski in Friday’s slalom, her third and best event at the Sochi Olympics.

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Matsotska says Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych “has to be jailed, and for a long time … for all the lives that he took.”

She says “I hope that I will be heard by the world.”

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