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Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent home

by Monika ScislowskaDaria Litvinova
| August 5, 2021 9:06 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get help, using her phone to translate a plea and show it to Japanese police as she tried to avoid being forced onto a plane.

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