'She is coming home!': Sports world cheers Griner's release

Brittney Griner’s Women’s National Basketball Association teammates, fellow athletes, and sports luminaries cheered her release from Russian custody on Thursday, December 8, months after she was first detained in a Moscow airport.

“I’m not a hugely emotional person but I got very choked up,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert told reporters. “My best friend is on the way Home!!!!! I love you BG!!!” Emma Cannon, who plays for the Indiana Fever and was previously on Griner’s Phoenix Mercury team, wrote on Twitter. Even as Griner was on a flight bound for Texas, Bout arrived in Moscow and hugged his mother and wife after stepping onto the tarmac, images on live television showed.

Griner, 32, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and star of the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, was arrested on February 17 at a Moscow airport after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is banned in Russia, were found in her luggage. The Russian foreign ministry said it traded Griner for Bout, 55, a Russian citizen who in 2012 was given a 25-year prison sentence by a US court on charges related to his arms-dealing career.

“These past few months have been hell for Brittney,” and for her wife, family and teammates, Biden said.

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