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Arseniy Zdanevich, the husband of an athlete from Belarus Kristina Timanovskaya, spoke about his attitude to the Belarusian opposition. According to him, he and his wife have never supported the opposition, the British TV channel Sky News reports.
“We have never had any ties, we have never supported the opposition. We are just ordinary athletes, we just do sports and are not interested in the opposition movement,” he said.
Earlier, the National Olympic Committee of Belarus said that the coaches decided to send Timanovskaya home because of her emotional and psychological state. The athlete was supposed to perform at the Olympics in running at distances of 100 and 200 meters, but in the end she was also announced for the 4×400 relay, in which the athlete had not previously performed. Timanovskaya said that she was put before the fact at the last moment, which is why she criticized this decision in social networks.
After that, they tried to forcibly take Timanovskaya out of Tokyo, but the Japanese police and the International Olympic Committee stopped the illegal actions. She spent the night at an airport hotel, and after that several European countries offered her asylum. The athlete has already received a Polish humanitarian visa.