Tokyo 2020, seen from Poland: sprinter Tsimanouskaya leaves Japan

Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who in recent days opposed a denounced attempted forced return from Tokyo, left Japan after Poland offered her a visa for humanitarian reasons. The 24-year-old sprinter got on a flight from Narita airport, near Tokyo, bound for Vienna, writes the Kyodo agency, adding that the athlete – who arrived at the airport from the Polish embassy in the capital – did not answer the questions of the journalists. Tsimanouskaya should have arrived directly in Warsaw, but there was a last minute change, they said from the airport, as reported by the BBC to which the athlete reiterated that his is not a political protest, that “he loves “his country and” did not betray him “. The sprinter spoke of “mistakes made by our managers at the Olympics”. The International Olympic Committee has launched an investigation into the case.