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Sprinter flying to Warsaw after refusing to return to Belarus

Sports · 5:42 PM UTC

A plane carrying Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya took off for Warsaw on Wednesday, a Reuters eyewitness in Vienna said, following her arrival from Tokyo three days after refusing her team's order to go home early from the Olympics.

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