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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya 🇵🇱

2023 World Athletics Championships (Budapest)

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‘Eventually, we will win’

‘Eventually, we will win’

Olympic defector Krystsina Tsimanouskaya After a dispute with Belarusian sports authorities, officials from the repressive regime, led by president Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, tried to bundle the sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya on a plane back home. Instead of being forcibly returned to what looked like a precarious future, Tsimanouskaya, aided by a translation app, approached Japanese…

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Tsimanouskaya took refuge in the Polish Embassy in Tokyo on August 2 after refusing to allow Belarusian team officials to force her onto a flight to Minsk after she criticized them. Two days later she boarded a plane to Europe, reaching Warsaw via a stopover in Vienna. Poland has granted the sprinter and her husband, who fled there via Ukraine, humanitarian visas. Tsimanouskaya's plight became a major story from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and refocused international attention on repression in Belarus since protests erupted when authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory in a disputed presidential election one year ago.

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Belarus sprinter feels safe, looks to future in Poland / New York Post

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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya Safe in Poland

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya Safe in Poland

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, an Olympic sprinter from Belarus, lit a fuse over the weekend when she criticized her coaches for their decisions regarding the Olympic team. For instance, for their last-minute decision to assign her to a 4X400 relay, a race she’s never run. For her criticism, she was banned by her coaches from competing in her own event, the 200 meters. After a tense weekend,…

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Polish 4x100m team 🇵🇱

Pia Skrzyszowska, Ewa Swoboda, Magdalena Stefanowicz and Krystsina Tsimanouskaya

2023 World Athletics Championships (Budapest)

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ベラルーシ五輪選手 “スピード亡命”の舞台裏

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Atleta bielorrussa exilada agradece a Polônia e o Japão

Atleta bielorrussa exilada agradece a Polônia e o Japão

Atleta bielorrussa exilada agradece a Polônia e o Japão A velocista bielorrussa que se recusou a retornar a sua terra natal depois de competir nos Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio 2020 expressou sua gratidão às autoridades japonesas e polonesas. Ela falou de Varsóvia depois de ter recebido um visto humanitário da Polônia. Krystsina Tsimanouskaya disse no início desta semana que publicou reclamações na…

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I feel like it's some sort of healing moment that 80 years after World War II, the Belarus runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya found help with the Japanese and safety in Vienna.

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Belarus sprinter leaves Tokyo on flight to Vienna after seeking refuge | Belarus | The Guardian

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya expected to head to Poland amid fears she would be punished if she returned home

The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has left Japan on a Vienna-bound plane after refusing to return to Belarus because she feared she would face punishment for publicly criticising her coaches for their “negligence”.

Tsimanouskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland after she said Belarus officials attempted to bundle her on a plane. She requested police protection at Haneda airport and later took refuge at the Polish embassy in Tokyo in a scandal that has rocked the games.

Tsimanouskaya was expected to take a direct flight to Warsaw but switched at the last minute, apparently as a security precaution. The Austrian government has saidshe will travel to Poland after she lands in Vienna on Wednesday.

“As we have indicated many times, for safety reasons we do not provide details of the flight route,” the Polish deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, said in a post on Twitter. He wrote that Tsimanouskaya was “being taken care of by the Polish diplomatic service”.

Other prominent Belarusian athletes have said they feel unsafe to return to the country, where the leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has launched a harsh crackdown on opposition that has also seen athletes suspended for political opposition and even jailed.

The Belarusian heptathlete Yana Maksimava, who competed in the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, wrote that after the incident with Tsimanouskaya, she and her husband would remain in Germany and not return to Belarus because of the pressure on the opposition.

“Unfortunately you can lose not just your freedom but also your life there,” she wrote in a post on Instagram, adding in public remarks that she felt unsafe returning to the country with her young daughter. “Here you can breathe easily and be one of those who fights for free speech of one’s friends, relatives, and those you are close to. We absolutely will win,” she said.

Her husband, Andrei Krauchanka, who medaled in the Beijing games in 2008 and has openly supported the protests against Lukashenko, was among those detained and beaten during protests last year.

Tsimanouskaya said in an interview with the Associated Press that officials from her team had “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government that has relentlessly stifled any criticism.

Her refusal to return home has refocused attention on human rights violations in Belarus, where Lukashenko has hounded opposition members at home and even grounded a plane flying from Greece to Lithuania to arrest a dissident journalist on board. ...