Belarus, Timanovskaya Olympics: criticizes the regime and seeks to repatriate it by force

MOSCOW – It’s not the Olympics that Kristina Timanovskaya he had dreamed. The Belarusian sprinter was supposed to compete in the women’s 200 meters tomorrow, but officials of the Belarusian Olympic Committee withdrew her from the race and forcibly took her to the airport to board her on a direct flight to Minsk. Only the intervention of the police and the Japanese Foreign Ministry, as well as the IOC saved her from forced repatriation.