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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