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Belarus runner showed Japanese police plea for help on phone

by Monika ScislowskaDaria Litvinova
| August 5, 2021 6:30 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who criticized her coaches at the Tokyo Games said Thursday that she showed police a translated plea for help on her phone as she tried to avoid being put on a plane home, where she feared reprisals from an authoritarian government.

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