Breathing heavily and soaked in perspiration after the competition’s final round of weightlifting, Kovalsky said his infant daughter brought him the will to carry on; she was born a month and a half after he was wounded in March.
The organizer, Kiev-based TV producer Eugene Koval, said he had learned about the Invictus Games “and I said to myself: we should help the soldiers, why not do the same stuff here in Ukraine?”
“When I was in the hospital, dozens of people who I didn’t know at all came to me every day with gifts and words of support and called on …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
