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The gymnast adopted the boy Vadim in a marriage with businessman Timofey Nagorny
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Olympic champion Lilia Podkopayeva recently for the first time in a long time showed her husband, an American. The athlete also rarely publishes photos of her son Vadim, whom she adopted in a 2006 year in one of the orphanages in Donetsk. Telegraf tells what is known about the young man and what he looks like.
The Ukrainian gymnast was married to businessman and producer Timofey Nagorny until 2009. The couple aggressively promoted the topic of adoption and said that there are no other people's children. Later Vadim became a real handsome and a pride for his star mother.
The former athlete has not lived in Ukraine for several years now, same as her children. Besides Vadim, Podkopayeva has two biological daughters: Karolina Nagirna (2006) and Evelina (2019), from her current husband Igor Dubinsky.
What the son of Lilia Podkopayeva looks like today
Vadim had already finished Midtown High School in Atlanta when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 year. The Olympic champion revealed this in an interview with OBOZ.UA. The young man, who is now 20 years old, continues to attract the attention of his peers to the genocide of his people.
In 2024 year, entering university, Vadim wrote an essay in which he mentioned Ukraine and the achievements of his star mother. "I am very proud of my son! This year Vadim entered university, and it was necessary to write an essay. He wrote about his path, where he was adopted, from which city and country, and what he wants to resemble his mother in the sense that if a person has a dream, they must achieve it," said Lilia Podkopayeva.
Now the guy studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), which the former gymnast herself spoke about on Instagram.
Note that children of famous people always come under media scrutiny. Earlier Telegraf told how the heirs of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov are doing now.
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