Brittney Yevette Griner is 31 years old and an American basketball star 203 centimeters tall. But her case is now much bigger than her giant physique: she has been in prison in Moscow for three months, becoming a political hostage that Russia could use as a tool to put pressure on the United States.
The coincidence of the war in Ukraine crossed with the fate of this Texan athlete, winner of two gold medals at the Olympics, seven times All Star, a woman who broke many taboos in America: in 2013 she said she was a lesbian. ‘The following year he announced the official engagement with a teammate, Glory Johnson (the two, after getting married …