People charge their electronic devices at a railway station after Russia's military retreat from Kherson, Ukraine November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko 

People charge their electronic devices at a railway station after Russia's military retreat from Kherson, Ukraine November 29, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko 

A volunteer cleans up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers clean up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

A local boy rides a tricycle in front of the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

A volunteer cleans up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

DJ performs while volunteers clean up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Volunteers dance after cleaning up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

An artist performs while volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

DJ performs in the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

An artist performs while volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

An artist performs while volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

DJ performs while a volunteer removes debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers clean up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

A volunteer cleans up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers rest next to the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

A volunteer cleans up the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers stand in line to pick up food in front of the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

DJ performs while volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

A volunteer poses for a picture with a part of a mortar shell while DJ performs in the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

Volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

DJ performs while volunteers remove debris from the House of a Culture in the village of Yahidne, which was heavily damaged during Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 23, 2022. Members of the volunteers' movement Repair Together travel over regions, which were under Russian occupation and help local residents to clean up damaged buildings under accompaniment of electronic music. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

People charge their electronic devices in front of a theatre building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

People charge their electronic devices in front of a theatre building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Ukrainians seeking asylum in the United States charge their electronic devices in the Benito Juarez sports complex, set up as a shelter by the local government, in Tijuana, Mexico April 10, 2022. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan 

A girl fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, uses an electronic device, in a sports gymnasium at a local high school in Przemysl, Poland, March 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel 

Children fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, use an electronic device in a sports gymnasium at a local high school In Przemysl, Poland, March 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel 

Children fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, use electronic devices in a sports gymnasium at a local high school In Przemysl, Poland, March 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel 

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya presents a picture on an electronic device showing Marianna Podgurskaya from Mariupol, during the United Nations Security Council meeting on Threats to International Peace and Security, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in New York City, U.S. March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
 

Ukrainian National Victoria Malynovska, 38, living and working in Spain, gives out ribbons with the colours of Ufranian flag in an anti-war protest outside the 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in Barcelona, Spain March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Nacho Doce 

Ukrainian National Victoria Malynovska, 38, living and working in Spain, gives out ribbons with the colours of Ufranian flag in an anti-war protest outside the 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in Barcelona, Spain March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Nacho Doce 

A man walks past a closed electronic store in central Kyiv, Ukraine February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko 

People use electronic devices in an air raid shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

People use electronic devices in an air raid shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. Picture taken February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi 

People pass electronic billboard with Adolf Hitler face displayed in centre of Warsaw, as part of an initiative by Chasdei Naomi, an Israeli welfare association which supports thousands of Holocaust survivors to mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Poland, January 23, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel 

Sadam Aziz, 15, sits on a cushion with his phone as he and his cousins play on their electronic devices in a guest room at their apartment in Renton, Washington, U.S. October 30, 2021. Aziz was separated from his parents at Kabul airport and boarded an evacuation flight to Qatar alone before being sent to an emergency children's center in Michigan, where he stayed for a month before joining his uncle's family in Washington state. Picture taken October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson 

Visitors stand by a J-16D electronic warfare aircraft displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song 

Visitors look at a J-16D electronic warfare aircraft displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song 

Visitors look at a J-16D electronic warfare aircraft displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song 

General view shows the wire chaos of generator distribution of electricity, after continuous power outages in Najaf, Iraq June 21, 2019. Picture taken June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani 

A worker tries to rehabilitate an electrical generator in a generator repair shop, after continuous power outages in Najaf, Iraq June 22, 2019. Picture taken June 22, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani 

A worker fixes electrical strips at an electrical generator, after continuous power outages in Najaf, Iraq June 22, 2019. Picture taken June 22, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani 

A worker is seen near an electrical generator board, after continuous power outages in Najaf, Iraq June 22, 2019. Picture taken June 22, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani 

A man tries to run his personal electrical generator at home, after continuous power outages in Najaf, Iraq June 21, 2019. Picture taken June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani 

U.S. Navy Aviation Electronics Technician Airman Caleb Conrad stands next to an F/A-18 fighter jet of the "Checkmates" squadron at the hangar bay of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, May 4, 2018. Picture taken May 4, 2018. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis 

Cell phones and other accessories, which an Iraqi soldier said are used by the Islamic State militants for bomb attacks, are seen at an abandoned house previously used by the militants in western Mosul, Iraq June 15, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro 

Cables and computers are seen inside a data centre at an office in the heart of the financial district in London, Britain May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez 

Cables and computers are seen inside a data centre at an office in the heart of the financial district in London, Britain May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez 

An American soldier takes a selfie at the U.S. army base in Qayyara, south of Mosul October 25, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

A technician from the NGO Mines Advisory Group (MAG) holds a trigger before destroying unexploded bombs and ordnance found in a field, that were dropped by the U.S. Air Force planes during the Vietnam War, at Phaxay district in Xieng Khouang province, Laos September 2, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva SEARCH "LAOS BOMBS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Syria's Olympic Committee is sending seven athletes to compete in Rio this month, in athletics, swimming, judo, table tennis and weightlifting. That the committee is run out of Damascus by the government of President Bashar al-Assad has effectively ruled out anyone who lives in rebel-held areas, including the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo where 19-year-old Ahmad al-Sawas makes a living selling and repairing electronic equipment in his father's shop. In another reminder of the impact of the war on sport, two athletes originally from Syria will also compete in Rio under the banner of the first-ever Olympic refugee team. One of the seven competing under the national flag who did train abroad is 50m freestyle swimmer Baean Jouma: the first Syrian to qualify by meeting the Olympic qualifying standard - rather than via the wild card system - since heptathlete Ghada Shouaa, who won Syria's only gold medal in 1996. SEARCH "SYRIANS OLYMPICS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Matching text: OLYMPICS-RIO/SYRIA 

A man carries an electronic device he looted in al-Shadadi town, Hasaka countryside, Syria February 26, 2016. Picture taken February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said

A man walks on the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah 

People walk on the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah 

A man walks on the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

People stand look at an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah 

People stand on the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah 

People look at the rubble of an electronics warehouse store after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed it in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 14, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah