A Belarusian athlete in Japan for the Olympic Games took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo on Monday, a day after refusing to board a flight home with her team.
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has applied for a humanitarian visa and is planning to leave for Poland in the coming days, a Polish deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, said.
She pulled up in front of the embassy in an unmarked silver van about 5 p.m. local time . She stepped out with her official team luggage, and then greeted two officials before entering the premises. "The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me," she wrote in the message. "At 5 they came my room and told me to pack and they took me to the airport."The Belarusian Olympic Committee said in a statement coaches had decided to withdraw Tsimanouskaya from the Games on doctors' advice about her "emotional, psychological state".
The Japanese government said the athlete had been kept safe while Tokyo 2020 organisers and the IOC checked her intentions.
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