Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says she's being safely guarded by Japanese police after her Olympic team tried forcing her onto a plane to leave Japan
Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya talks with police officers at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan August 1, 2021.
The IOC and Tokyo 2020 will continue their conversations with Krystsina Tsymanouskaya and the authorities to determine the next steps in the upcoming days. /2A number of agencies were in contact with the sprinter, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he added. "The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me," she wrote in the message. But she refused to board the flight, telling Reuters: "I will not return to Belarus."
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