Krystina Tsimanouskaya: Olympic sprinter on her refusal to return to Belarus
A Belarusian sprinter who has fled to Poland after a standoff with her country's authorities at the Tokyo Olympics has said she decided to seek refuge as she was being driven to the airport because her grandmother told her it was not safe to return home.
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