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BBC: Belarusian sprinter reunited with husband in Poland

By BBC.

Published Aug. 6, 2021. Updated Aug. 6 at 1:43 am

Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya looks back as she boards her Vienna-bound flight at Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo on August 4, 2021, after travelling from the Polish embassy where she had spent the past two nights following claims her team tried to force her to return home after she criticised her coaches during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

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Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was reunited with her husband in Warsaw on Thursday, an opposition politician said, as the couple look to make a new life for themselves after the athlete’s dramatic defection during the Tokyo Olympics.