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Belarus Olympian Who Feared Returning Offered Safety In Austria, Husband Flees For Poland

Emily Zanotti
Belarus Olympian Who Feared Returning Offered Safety In Austria, Husband Flees For Poland
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An Olympian from Belarus, who feared being imprisoned or worse if she returned to her home country, is now safely in Austria en route to Poland, which will also shelter her husband.

As The  Daily Wire reported last week, sprinter “Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she was removed from the Olympic team and taken to the airport in order to return to Belarus, but told Japanese authorities that she did not, in fact, want to return to her home country.”

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