Japan: Belarus runner involved in airport standoff is safe

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021. Tsimanouskaya alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday, Aug. 1, at Tokyo’s main airport. An activist group supporting Tsimanouskaya said she believed her life was in danger in Belarus and would seek asylum with the Austrian embassy in Tokyo.

Japanese government spokesman Katsunobu Kato told reporters that Japan was cooperating with other organizations “to take appropriate measures,” and confirmed that Tsimanouskaya was safe. The Foreign Ministry said Japan was working with the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympics organizers.

Tsimanouskaya, who is due to run in the Olympic 200-meter heats Monday, criticized Belarus team officials on her Instagram account. She said she’d been put in the 4x400 relay despite never racing the event.The Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation said government supporters targeted the athlete, and Tsimanouskaya contacted the group for help to avoid what she feared was a forced deportation to Minsk.

In a statement released by the BSSF, Tsimanouskaya said she was in a police station early Monday morning. “The IOC … is looking into the situation and has asked the NOC for clarification,” it said in a statement.

Today: Tsimanouskaya is flying to Vienna, but she was expected to travel on to Poland. She said she hoped she could continue her career but that safety was her immediate priority.

Wishing this athlete strength.

Hope her family will be safe

So does she switch to the refugee team or ?

Love the poles

Idrettspolitik1

Great, now it would be brilliant of a decent country offered her asylum.

FBI CIA Please Help the United States of America Be 1 again Please I love America To Much. I’m Crying 😢

Someone was holding her against her will? Was her family being held hostage? No. Usual hype

thanks Poland.Please keep all spelling correctr.Thankski.

KremlinRussia_E has its hand in a public event that put an Olympics athlete from Belarus at risk. Putin staged a public protest against Olympics and athletes. Both of these would have been a more accurate headline JoeBiden

Its a shame in these times to get persecuted by her own federation-as politics favoritism and animosity has trickled in sports

BREAKING: Activists: Belarusian sprinter seeking visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo after alleging officials tried to force her home.

'Lukashenko regime attempts kidnapping of Belarus athlete in Tokyo' TIFIFY.

JonLemire Tried to remove?

send her back to belarus

So sad to know that sports is now mix with politics

i just want to spot one moment, this Tsimanovskaya is weak athlete and her patricipance in this hoax is very stupid step. she will not get ticket to big sport. she will be used for pair months in propaganda and thrown out.

With her speed, they probably couldn't catch her.. I'm fast as ____ boys.. I'm fast as ____ .

very boring lie

when you read Poland always add NATO. Poland has no own opinion, it is NATO speaking, brainwashing people in EUROPE and the U.S. that Russia is on the verge of attacking Poland and Baltic States for now 30 years.

It is not about sport, it is about politics. Unfortunately, Olimpic Games became a political arena

It's about time governments all over the world, stops harrasing their people.

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