Belarus sprinter Krystina Timanovskaya flies out of Japan
Belarus sprinter Krystina Timanovskaya flies out of Japan
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Published August 4, 2021
A Belarusian athlete who refused orders to fly home early from the Olympics has left Japan.
Krystina Timanovskaya, 24, boarded a flight to Vienna on Wednesday morning.
She had been expected to travel directly to Warsaw as Poland has granted her a humanitarian visa, but changed destination at the last minute, an airport official told reporters.
She told the BBC her actions were not a political protest: “I love my country and I didn’t betray my country.”
