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1 Aug, 11 tweets, 2 min read

Excerpts from the latest interview by Krystsina Tsimanouskaya.

Full text in Russian:
by.tribuna.com/tribuna/blogs/…

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“For now, I reckon, I am safe”.

Yesterday [July 31], the head coach of the national team, Yuri Moisevich, came to me. He suggested that I refuse to participate in the 200-meter run - to say that I have an injury, to shoot and fly home.

At the moment, he said, they want to remove me only from the Olympics, but if I refuse [to drop from the tournament] and if I run a distance of 200 meters, then I will be removed from the national team, deprived of work and, perhaps, there will be some other then the consequences

The coach and I talked for a long time and the decision was that that I would run.

[…]But today [August 1], after lunch, Artur Shumak, a representative of our national team, and Moisevich came to my room, and they told me that in just a couple of hours I was supposed to be at the airport. I need to quickly pack and leave.

[…]After that, Shumak came into the room again and said that I had 40 minutes to get ready. I started to put my things, they came up to me every 10 minutes and checked to see if I would get ready soon.

I packed my things for an hour and a half, tried to drag out the time as much as possible. I corresponded with my husband, with relatives, we thought about what to do, where to go.We decided that I would come to the airport, and there I would go to the police. So in the end I did

There were two people with me: a psychologist and a representative of the NOC [Vasily Yurchik].

These people took my suitcases, went to the parking lot, put my things in the car. I also sat down - and we went to the airport.

[…]I understood that the escorts were planning to stand with me to the end, until I received a ticket and left for boarding. [At the terminal] I immediately went to the police.

[…]I am afraid that in Belarus they might throw me in jail. I am not afraid that to be fired or expelled from the national team. I am worried about my safety. I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus.

[…] I am now at a police office. Then I will ask for asylum. We will act step by step. I plan to leave Tokyo, but not on the flight I was supposed to be sent on. Now I am under the protection of the police.

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