Belarusian Olympic Sprinter Says Family Warned Her to Flee, Fearing Reprisals

Belarusian Olympic Sprinter Says Family Warned Her to Flee, Fearing Reprisals
Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya addresses a press conference in Warsaw, on Aug. 5, 2021. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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A Belarusian sprinter, who refused to board a flight back to her home country out of fear she would be arrested after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Olympics, revealed her grandmother also warned her it was not safe to return.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya of eastern Belarus has since fled to the capital of Poland instead, where she arrived on Wednesday and has been granted a visa on humanitarian grounds.

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