Handshake
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A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of t
Two people shaking hands
Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I (left), 9th century BCE
Hera and Athena handshaking, late 5th century BC, Acropolis Museum, Athens
Hoplite greeting an older man with slave carrying the aspis
Olga Kharlan
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Olha Hennadiivna Kharlan, also known as Olga Kharlan, is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is a four-time individual women's world sabre champion, six-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated Ukrainia
Handshake
…type of handshake involves covering the clenched hands with the remaining free hand, creating a sort of "cocoon". In the sport of fencing, after the Olga Kharlan handshaking incident in 2023, the International Fencing Federation changed its rules so that the previously required handshakes between fencers at the end of a bout would…
Kharlan in 2008
Kharlan (R) scores against Russian Dina Galiakbarova in the women's team sabre final of the 2013 World Championships.
Ukrainian Order of Merit, first class