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Sprinter 'safe' in Austria after refusing to return to Belarus

Sports · 3:06 PM UTC

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was safe in Vienna on Wednesday, Austrian officials said, after she flew in from Tokyo under Polish diplomatic protection three days since refusing her team's order to go home early from the Olympics.

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