Timanovskaya: "Never thought that this will become a political scandal"

According to own information, the Belarussian Sprinterin Kristina Timanowskaya has completely underestimated the scope of its criticism expressed in Instagram. "From the beginning I was not about politics. I just criticized that our head coaches have decided on the relay race team without advising the athletes," said the athlete, who is from fear of the regime in Belarus Staying in the Polish Embassy in Tokyo, the _ image_.

Your coach had decided that Timanovskaya should participate in the 4x400 season at the Olympics in Tokyo. And the against the will of the 24-year-olds, who gave their anger in a video at Instagram expression. "That such dimensions can accept and become a political scandal, I would never have thought," she said.

A little later, she was logged off by the 200 m race and would have been overriding the journey home to Belarus. You have been to realize that your consequences would be threatened. Therefore, they spoke to Japanese police officers at the airport, which took them into care. In Poland Timanovskaya is now to receive asylum.

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"Everything you can now do is to allow me a safe flight to Europe," she said, "The Polish Foreign Ministry has already taken on contact with me and also the athletics association has promised me support. I hope very much that I will be safe in Poland. "