A Belarusian athlete who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing her team's orders to fly home from the Olympic Games will travel to Poland on Wednesday, a group of her supporters said.
A Belarusian athlete who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing her team's orders to fly home from the Olympic Games will travel to Poland on Wednesday, a group of her supporters said.She had earlier refused to get on a flight home, saying she had been taken to the airport against her will by Belarusian officials because she had criticised her team's coaching staff.
A source at the foundation, which supports athletes jailed or sidelined for their political views, said Tsimanouskaya planned to request asylum in Germany or Austria on Monday. The US ambassador to Belarus, Julie Fisher, said Mr Lukashenko's government had tried to discredit and humiliate Tsimanouskaya for expressing her views.
A policeman keeps watch as journalists gather outside the gates of the Polish embassy, where Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is taking refuge.Her husband, Arseni Zhdanevich, will join her in Poland, a Warsaw-based Belarusian opposition politician said. Tsimanouskaya told a Reuters reporter via Telegram that the Belarusian head coach had turned up at her room on Sunday at the athletes' village and told her she had to leave.
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