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Tsimanouskaya: Belarus Olympic athlete spurned by her country / V000_9JE3UH
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Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was a virtually unknown athlete until this weekend, when the 24-year-old found herself at the centre of a political scandal at the Tokyo Olympics, claiming her team tried to forcefully send her back to her authoritarian homeland from the Olympics. Anatoly Kotov, head of the Belarusian sport solidarity foundation's International Department, says "the system is based on repression, suppression of dissent, suppression of initiative". SOUNDBITES