UPDATED Belarus athlete granted visa to enter Poland after refusing to go home
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya plans to leave for Poland in the coming days, a Polish deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, told Reuters. She is "safe and in good condition" after walking into the embassy on Monday morning, he said.
Police there have cracked down on dissent following a wave of protests triggered by an election last year which the opposition says was rigged to keep him in power. "Thanks to the support of the Belarusian Athletes' Solidarity Foundation, husband is in Kiev and he will join Krystsina," Pavel Latushko told Reuters.Tsimanouskaya told a Reuters reporter via Telegram that the Belarusian head coach had turned up at her room on Sunday at the athletes' village and told her she had to leave.
Belarus athletics head coach Yuri Moisevich told state television he "could see there was something wrong with her... She either secluded herself or didn't want to talk." "Japan is coordinating with relevant parties and continues to take appropriate action," said chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato said.
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