Belarus Olympian taken to airport after publicly complaining about the national team, refuses to fly from Tokyo back home to Belarus

[basquebromance]

i'll learn her name someday!

Belarus Olympics: Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refuses 'forced' flight home

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says she fears for her safety as Belarus orders her home for complaining about coaches.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[shockedcanadian]

Sounds like legitimate asylum pursuit. They tried to force her back home and then dropped the "she has psychological and emotional issues", a classic tactic generally employed by government agencies with something to hide.

If Japan doesn't assist her, maybe another nation will.

 

[Ringo]

In the media of the "Free World", the story of an athletic dissident paints the image of Belarus as a second North Korea. Where is a kind of European iron Curtain and from where everyone is trying to escape. And after all, people will eat this shit. With pleasure.