Pictures of the Year International

**** HOLD FOR JERE'S Ukrainian Elite Sports School STORY ***** Swimming class students at Dnipro Sports College (In US standard, it’s high school) staying in the shelter in the basement during an Air Raid Alert, which frequently interrupt their training and that happened 7 times by mid afternoon on June 21st, 2024, in Dnipro, Ukraine. The Paris Games were a welcome respite for a country where there is deep uncertainty over the nation’s sporting future. Cr: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times, Assignment #49921690b CONTEST INFO: POYI Caption: Swimming class students at Dnipro Sports College waited in the shelter in the basement during an Air Raid Alert, which frequently interrupts their training. By mid-afternoon on June 21, 2024, they'd been interrupted 7 times already since they'd begun their training that morning in Dnipro, Ukraine. The Paris Games were a welcome respite for a country where there is deep uncertainty over the nation’s sporting future.