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Tokyo 2020: is Team PL on track for glory?

Poland’s 4 x 400m mixed relay team wins the country’s first gold medal. Leszek Szymański/PAP

As the Olympics enters its final few days, we bring you the highs and lows of Poland’s week.

Poland homes silver in women's 500m kayak doubles

Poland's Karolina Naja and Anna Pulawska won the silver medal in the women's kayak double 500 metres competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.

Extraordinary tale of canoeists who battled one of the world’s deepest canyons and fought for Poland’s freedom from South America told in fascinating documentary

VIDEO: Originally intending to explore the rivers of Argentina, by the time they had finished they had survived the 3,400 m deep Colca canyon river in Peru, battled malaria, become local celebrities, opened a network of Solidarity offices across South America and initiated a string of fundraising events to send money back to the movement in Poland.

Top 5 articles:

  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
Sport

Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

The first report:

  • Poland supports Sweden's, Finland's Nato accession
  • Poland, Ukraine announce support programmes for women soldiers, orphans
  • March core inflation rate at 7.7 pct - central bank
  • Ukrainian grain exports may come through Poland
  • US Treasury secretary praises meal charity organisation

Exclusive

‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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