Poland Grants Visa to Belarus Olympian Who Fears for Safety

Poland Grants Visa to Belarus Olympian Who Fears for Safety
Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is seen at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 1, 2021. Issei Kato/Reuters
The Associated Press
Updated:

TOKYO—Poland granted a visa Monday to a Belarusian Olympic sprinter who said she feared for her safety and that her team’s officials tried to force her to fly home, where the autocratic government was accused of diverting a flight to arrest a dissident journalist.

An activist group that is helping athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya told The Associated Press that it bought her a plane ticket to Warsaw for the coming days.