Video: Ukrainian Olympic alpine skier works on a construction site in the Czech Republic
Dmytro Shep'yuk, a 20-year-old Ukrainian alpine skier who represented the national team at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, went to the Czech Republic to work after the season ended. The athlete works in construction in Brno for eight to ten hours a day.
The native of Zakarpattia shared this in a comment to Czech blogger Petr Havlík right at his workplace.
Dmytro Shep'yuk’s main financial goal is to invest all the money he earns into developing his own athletic career, since alpine skiing is a very expensive sport. He hopes to reach a level where the sport will fully support him financially, so he will no longer have to take on outside work. He is currently training with a small team alongside Slovak athletes. According to the athlete, his summer job isn’t a break but rather part of his preparation for upcoming competitions, since his main goal is to compete in World Cup events.
At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Dmytro Shep’yuk competed in all four individual disciplines. He became only the second Ukrainian alpine skier in history to successfully complete every single race at a single Games. The athlete’s best result at the competition was a 32nd-place finish in the slalom, where he set a national record. In addition, the Ukrainian finished 33rd in the downhill, 36th in the super-G, and 40th in the giant slalom.
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