The sprinter caused a diplomatic incident on Sunday when she said her coaches had cut her Tokyo Games short, demanding she return home after she had publicly criticised them
Belarusian Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo, arrives at Narita International Airport to leave for Vienna, in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan August 4, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato REFILE - CORRECTING TRAVEL DESTINATIONBelarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo aboard a flight to Vienna on Wednesday, less than 72 hours after refusing to return home with her team.
She will go to Poland in the evening, said a member of the Belarusian community in touch with Tsimanouskaya, who also said that diplomats had told her that they changed her flight due to security concerns. The source did not specify the concerns and Reuters could not independently verify them. The Austrian foreign ministry confirmed she was on the flight to Vienna, but declined to comment on her final destination.Hours earlier in Tokyo, a spokesperson for the Narita airport, Kazunori Hashimoto, told journalists waiting for Tsimanouskaya to board the flight to Warsaw at Gate 31 that the athlete had changed routes.
“Two of our reporters boarded the Warsaw-bound flight from Tokyo on Wednesday with the aim of documenting Tsimanouskaya’s arrival in Poland,” the spokesperson said. “Reuters is seeking to establish whether that played any role in the decision for Tsimanouskaya not to board the flight to Warsaw.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of intolerable “transnational repression” in the matter.
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