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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led the tributes to Oleksandr Usyk, whose victory over British fighter Tyson Fury in Riyadh made him the first undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion in a quarter of a century. The 37-year-old, who briefly served as a soldier in the Ukrainian army after the Russian invasion of February 2022, spoke of a “great moment […] for …

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