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The Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics

Ukrainian fencer Sergei Golubitsky looks back at the 1992 Olympics, the first and only time former Soviet athletes competed together as the Unified Team.

In 1992 history was made at the Olympics in Barcelona as 12 former Soviet republics competed for the first and only time as the Unified Team.

It was the final time the countries who had been part of the USSR took part in sporting events as the same team. And it marked a revolution for athletes who had been part of the Soviet athletics machine like World Champion Ukrainian fencer Sergei Golubitsky.

He speaks to Ashley Byrne about the mixed feelings he and other athletes had as their countries turned their back on communism and gradually embraced a new way of doing elite sport. A Made in Manchester production.

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(Photo: Fencers fencing. Credit: Getty Images)

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