{"id":612314,"date":"2021-08-05T06:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612314"},"modified":"2021-08-05T06:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:36:49","slug":"belarus-olympian-who-feared-returning-offered-safety-in-austria-husband-flees-for-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belarus-olympian-who-feared-returning-offered-safety-in-austria-husband-flees-for-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Olympian Who Feared Returning Offered Safety In Austria, Husband Flees For Poland"},"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%2Fbelarus-olympian-who-feared-returning-offered-safety-in-austria-husband-flees-for-poland%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=612314&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\/GettyImages-1234455479.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An Olympian from Belarus, who feared being imprisoned or worse if she returned to her home country, is now safely in Austria en route to Poland, which will also shelter her husband.<\/p>\n<p>As the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/belarusian-sprinter-who-said-she-was-being-sent-home-under-pressure-granted-polish-visa\"> Daily Wire reported<\/a> last week, sprinter \u201cKrystsina Tsimanouskaya said she was removed from the Olympic team and taken to the airport in order to return to Belarus, but told Japanese authorities that she did not, in fact, want to return to her home country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsimanouskaya told Japanese authorities that she was being forced to return to Belarus because she criticized the team\u2019s coaches and that she was being loaded onto a plane home against her will. She said later that her coaches put her in the 4\u00d7400 relay \u2014 an event she would not typically run, being a sprinter \u2014 and when she refused, she was pulled from her event, the women\u2019s 200m.<\/p>\n<p>\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, per Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\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 added in an interview with the media. \u201cI am worried about my safety. And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese were able to whisk Tsimanouskaya to safety and she has now been offered asylum in Poland and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/belarus-olympic-runner-who-feared-going-home-lands-in-vienna\">according to Fox News<\/a>, landed safely in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cA Belarusian Olympic sprinter who said a feud with team officials made her feel she could not safely return home arrived in Austria on Wednesday, part of a journey that could see her settle in Europe to avoid reprisals from her authoritarian government,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cAfter a stopover in Vienna, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is expected to travel to Poland, which granted her a humanitarian visa. In a dramatic standoff at the Tokyo Games, the runner said team officials tried to force her to fly home early after she criticized them, and some European countries stepped in to offer assistance,\u201d Fox added.<\/p>\n<p>Tsimanouskaya was reportedly told to fly to Austria first by Polish security officials, according to the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation, which helped to organize what appears to now be a defection.&nbsp;She will meet her husband, who fled Belarus after learning of his wife\u2019s troubles, in Poland. He has also been offered a visa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy that she is here safe,\u201d an Austrian official said on Wednesday. \u201cBut she is scared about her future and about her family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games \u2014 particularly American athletes \u2014 have been focused on demonstrating and protesting against \u201coppression,\u201d even taking part in a widespread protest involving a black \u201cX\u201d printed on a hand or arm during competition or a medal ceremony. So far, though, it appears no American athletes have spoken out on Tsimanouskaya\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Olympian from Belarus, who feared being imprisoned or worse if she returned to her home country, is now safely in Austria en route to Poland, which will also shelter &#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-612314","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\/612314","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=612314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612314\/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=612314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}