“You are ignorant.” The Paralympic champion told how she outraged a Ukrainian athlete in London – all because of Rihanna

At those Games, the athlete won two awards – silver in the 400 m run and bronze in the main sprint distance of 100 meters in the T12 class (the category of athletes who cannot see objects at a distance of more than 2 meters).

The singer Rihanna performed at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in London, but, as Oksana admitted, she had no idea who it was. This caused surprise in the Ukrainian thrower, who indignantly called Boturchuk ignorant because of this.

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“The famous singer Rihanna performed at the closing of the Paralympic Games in London. Then there was such a funny story. I am sitting, and next to me was a girl, our thrower, she says to me: “Give me the phone, because you have a camera. Look who is standing.” I ask: “And who is standing there?”, she explains that it is Rihanna, but I don’t know who she is. You should have seen this girl’s face (laughs). She spent half the evening explaining to me who she was, took a picture of her on my phone, this singer just walked out where the Ukrainian team was sitting. Another star passed by me, but I remembered Rihanna the most, because I didn’t know her at that time. My head was not filled with that, I was thinking about the children, and this girl said to me so indignantly: “You are ignorant!” (laughs),” Boturchuk recalled for NV.

We will remind that at the 2024 Games in the capital of France, the athlete won bronze in the 400-meter run and silver in the 100-meter run in the T12 class (the category of athletes who cannot see objects at a distance of more than 2 meters). It is worth noting that thanks to this, the athlete became the Ukrainian record holder for the number of medals at the Paralympics in athletics – 12.

Earlier, Oksana Boturchuk recalled how she trained while pregnant during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.