“It’s horrific, it really is,” Delicious Orie says as, turning his attention briefly away from his hopes of winning an Olympic gold medal in Paris, the British super‑heavyweight born in Moscow to a Russian mother and a Nigerian father considers the war in Ukraine.
Orie spent the first seven years of his life in Russia before the racism his dad endured became unbearable and his family emigrated to England. Rather than thinking of all he needs to do to emulate his hero, Anthony Joshua, and become an Olympic champion, Orie now considers how he might have ended up as a Russian soldier during the invasion of Ukraine.
