Batenkova has competed at three successive Winter Paralympics , first at Turin 2006 , and also in 2010 and 2014 . She has won medals at each games in both Cross-country skiing and biathlon . Following the Turin Games , Batenkova was given an apartment in Lutsk by the Ukrainian Government , and has been given other financial awards for winning her medals at the three Winter Paralympics she has attended . During the 2014 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony , Batenkova was one of the Ukrainian medallists who covered their medals in protest against the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation . She said afterwards , " That is how we show our protest and disagreement that our country could be divided and part of it could be excluded from Ukraine , Crimea is my motherland , where I was born , and of course I worry about it . I want peace . "
2014 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony
2014 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony
Iuliia Batenkova