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Post by pieter on Aug 5, 2021 9:53:43 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 5, 2021 9:55:24 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 5, 2021 9:59:03 GMT -7
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya ( born 19 November 1996) is a Belarusian sprinter. She won a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2017 European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, a gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy, and a silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus.
Tsimanouskaya qualified to participate at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m events. On 30 July 2021, during the Games, she accused officials from the Belarus Olympic Committee of forcing her to compete in the 4 × 400 m relay race without her consent. On 1 August 2021, she was taken to Tokyo's Haneda Airport by her team against her wishes, where she refused to board a flight back to Belarus. She was subsequently given police protection before being granted a humanitarian visa by Poland, to which she traveled on 4 August via Vienna, Austria.
Early life  Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya was born in Klimavichy, a town in eastern Belarus. Though she raced for fun as a child, she joined competitive athletics late, receiving an offer from an Olympic trainer to join his academy when she was around 15 years old. Her parents were initially worried, thinking she would not achieve an athletic career; they were convinced by Tsimanouskaya and her grandmother.For more info read this links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystsina_Tsimanouskaya
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryscina_Cimanouska
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryszina_Zimanouskaja (For Karl)
be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D1%9E%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A6%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F (Belarussian for Belarussian visitors)
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F,_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 (Russian for Russian visitors)
uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%97%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 (For Ukrainian visitors)
sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryscina_Cimanovsk%C3%A1 (For Slovenian visitors)
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryscina_Cimanousk%C3%A1 (For Czech visitors)
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Aug 6, 2021 3:25:04 GMT -7
TOKYO — Two Belarusian coaches were stripped of their accreditation and booted out of the Olympic Village on Friday, just days after a Belarusian sprinter refused to go home and found sanctuary in Poland. The coaches, Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich, “were requested to leave the Olympic Village immediately and have done so ... in the interest of the wellbeing of the athletes,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement. New details emerged about how quick-thinking sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was able to escape from her handlers Sunday by using Google Translate to communicate with Japanese police — and by claiming to have left something behind at the village to buy herself more time when police, at first, didn’t understand that she needed help. The IOC identified Shimak and Maisevich as the coaches who took Tsimanouskaya by car to Haneda Airport outside Tokyo and tried to stick her on a plane to Minsk when she bolted to the police
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Post by Jaga on Aug 6, 2021 5:06:24 GMT -7
John, Pieter, thanks for the updates. It is hard for her since she did not really wanted this conflict. She was basically stripped of going back to Belarus, her life is in danger and she lost what she had in Belarus until Lukashenko is in power.
But her personal loss may increase Belarus regime visibility in the world, thus help to pressure regime to change. I don't think they would, but lets hope Lukashenko would be gone sooner rather than later.
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