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Belarus sprinter: Grandmother advised her not to return home

by Monika Scislowska
| August 5, 2021 5:33 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals at home after criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games said Thursday that her grandmother advised her not to return to Belarus but she urged her fellow citizens “not to be afraid.”

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