MILAN: The Israeli bobsled team have had “thousands of dollars” of personal items and passports stolen from their apartment during training for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, according to a team member.
“While training for the Olympics the @israelbobsled apartment was broken into during their training, thousands of dollars of stuff and passports were stolen. What a season...,” AJ Edelman wrote on X.
It was not immediately clear which country the apartment was in, though Italian media said it was not Italy.
A map that appears to be of Prague can be seen in the room in a photograph posted by Edelman.
“Such a gross violation — suitcases, shoes, equipment, passports stolen, and the boys headed right back to training today,” Eldelman wrote.
The team is in training for its first Olympic event on February 16, he said.
International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said: “I understand that this was in a pre-Games lodging and therefore was not within our zone.
“Also, the most important thing is to say that we support them. We will do what we can.
“If they need any help, we will obviously do that.”
Israeli bobsled pilot says team apartment burgled during Olympics training
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Israeli bobsled pilot says team apartment burgled during Olympics training
- The Israeli bobsled team have had “thousands of dollars” of personal items and passports stolen from their apartment
- International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said: “I understand that this was in a pre-Games lodging and therefore was not within our zone
Four killed in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv exchange drone strikes
- Kyiv said Russian drone strikes had killed two people and wounded seven more in Kharkiv
- Synegubov said two people had been killed in the attack on the Shevchenkivsky district
KHARKIV, Ukraine: Russian and Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people Wednesday, officials said, as the war between the neighbors dragged on for more than four years with no diplomatic breakthrough in sight.
The latest attacks came with a third round of three-party talks derailed by the war in the Middle East, despite pressure from Washington on both sides to agree to an elusive peace deal.
Kyiv said Russian drone strikes had killed two people and wounded seven more in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which lies close to the Russian border, was encircled at the beginning of Russia’s invasion four years ago.
It has been attacked almost daily since Moscow’s forces were pushed back later in 2022.
The governor of the wider region, Oleg Synegubov, said two people had been killed in the attack on the Shevchenkivsky district.
“A civilian enterprise caught fire as a result of the enemy strike,” he said, adding that three women and four men had been hospitalized.
Another Russian drone wounded 20 people in the afternoon, after hitting a civilian minibus in the southeastern city of Kherson, Ukrainian prosecutors said.
In the Russian-occupied part of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow-installed authorities said two civilians had been killed in their car by a Ukrainian drone strike on the frontline town of Vasylivka.
“The danger of repeated strikes remains,” Kremlin-appointed governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.
