{"id":608088,"date":"2021-08-01T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608088"},"modified":"2021-08-01T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:21:20","slug":"olympian-fears-jail-after-negligence-comment-about-belarusian-staff-not-safe-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympian-fears-jail-after-negligence-comment-about-belarusian-staff-not-safe-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Fears Jail After \u2018Negligence\u2019 Comment About Belarusian Staff: \u2018Not Safe For Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Folympian-fears-jail-after-negligence-comment-about-belarusian-staff-not-safe-for-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Belarus.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A 24-year-old female athlete from the European country of Belarus will reportedly seek asylum in another country after the Belarusian Olympic Committee staff allegedly retaliated against her for speaking negatively of them and then tried to take her back home against her will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The athlete, sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, says she was removed from the olympic team after speaking \u201cabout the negligence of our coaches\u201d in an Instagram post, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/exclusive-olympics-belarusian-athlete-says-she-was-taken-airport-go-home-after-2021-08-01\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span>, which spoke to her at the airport in Tokyo. \u201cSome of our girls did not fly here to compete in the 4\u00d7400 m relay because they didn\u2019t have enough doping tests,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd the coach added me to the relay without my knowledge. I spoke about this publicly. The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, is known as Europe\u2019s last dictator, and his country recently made headlines for arresting a journalist critical of his regime while the journalist was flying over Belarusian airspace. In December, the International Olympic Committee banned him from attending the Olympics on behalf of his country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After Tsimanouskaya criticized her country\u2019s Olympics officials, the Belarusian Olympic Committee claimed that the athlete was withdrawing from participation because of her \u201cemotional and psychological state.\u201d They then took her to the Tokyo airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But she claims that the Belarusian Olympic Committee is lying about the reason she left, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/08\/01\/belarus-sprinter-olympics-tokyo\/\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to The Washington Post, and after she arrived at the Tokyo airport, she told Japanese authorities that she did not, in fact, want to return to Belarus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am under pressure and they are trying to take me out of the country without my consent. I ask the International Olympic Committee to interfere,\u201d she said in a video posted by Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation, a non-governmental organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am afraid that in Belarus they might put me in jail. I am not afraid that I will be fired or kicked out of the national command,\u201d she told Belarusian media outlet Tribuna. \u201cI am worried about my safety. And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sviatlana<\/span> <span>Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled Belarusian opposition leader, came out in support of her<\/span><span>: \u201cShe\u2019s afraid to come back to Minsk. No athlete should be forced this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.6312849162011\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsymanouskaya was forced by the regime to leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Olympics<\/a> in Tokyo &amp; fly to Belarus after criticizing Belarus\u2019 management of the national team during the games. She\u2019s afraid to come back to Minsk. No athlete should be forced this way. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ros5scrJG\">pic.twitter.com\/1Ros5scrJG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tsihanouskaya\/status\/1421815384651481098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>German-language newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/tokyo-olympics-belarusian-athlete-tsimanouskaya-forced-to-leave-games\/a-58722997\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, citing an anonymous source, reports that Tsimanouskaya plans to seek asylum with Germany or Austria on Monday. The International Olympic Committee has said they will stay up-to-date with developments.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3636363636364\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The IOC and Tokyo 2020 will continue their conversations with Krystsina Tsymanouskaya and the authorities to determine the next steps in the upcoming days. \/2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iocmedia\/status\/1421872768744787971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old female athlete from the European country of Belarus will reportedly seek asylum in another country after the Belarusian Olympic Committee staff allegedly retaliated against her for speaking negatively &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}