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Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya talks with a police officer at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan, on August 1. Photo: CNNOlympic officials said on Tuesday that they will investigate Belarus over claims the team tried to force an athlete now sheltering in Poland’s Tokyo embassy to return home after she criticised her coaches.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he had spoken to the “courageous” Tsimanouskaya, who is “currently well taken care of and safe”. Tsimanouskaya, a 200 metres specialist, criticised the Belarusian athletics federation after they tried to force her to run in a relay. She said that outburst led to the attempt to forcibly send her home.
Morawiecki said offering the athlete help was an important gesture “to get the word out on the international arena as to what is happening across our eastern border,” telling Belarusians “we won’t leave you stranded!”Activist group Global Athlete called overnight for the IOC to immediately suspend Belarus’s Olympic committee and allow the country’s athletes to compete as neutral athletes.
Asked about the safety of the team’s remaining athletes at the Games, Adams said IOC and Tokyo 2020 staff were based at the Olympic Village and could be approached if necessary.The US secretary of state accused Lukashenko’s regime of trying “to commit another act of transnational repression: attempting to force Olympian Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to leave simply for exercising free speech.”
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