Puerto Rico at the Olympics Puerto Rico at the Olympics Puerto Rico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Notably, despite being an insular area of the United States, Puerto Rico did not fully participate in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, as three boxers competed in Moscow. Puerto Rico has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1984, but missed the Games of 2006, 2010, and 2014. Puerto Rican athletes have won a total of nine medals. Six medals were won in boxing, one in athletics, one
Ukraine at the Paralympics Nagano. Ukraine has competed at every edition of the Summer and Winter Games since then and have done so with remarkable success. Ukrainian athletes, competing as an independent country, have won a total of 238 Paralympic medals, of which 67 gold, 69 silver and 92 bronze, placing the country 23rd on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. The country has won 173 medals at the Summer Games, and 65 at the Winter Games. It has won more gold medals, and more medals overall, than any other former member of the Soviet Union, apart from Russia. In the 2000s, Ukraine became