Olympia - Belarusian Athletin Timanowskaja landed in Vienna

The Belarusian Athletin Kristina Timanovskaya, who has become known after public kidnapping allegations against their own delegation during the Olympic Games worldwide, is on their way to their new home Poland. Timanowskaya changed their travel plans on Wednesday and flew from Tokyo to Vienna. From there she should continue in the evening after Warsaw, as a spokesman for the Austrian government of the French news agency AFP said.

Like Timanovskaya, her husband will also receive a humanitarian visa in Poland, confirmed official posts in the afternoon. Shortly after 3 pm, the machine of Austrian Airlines from Tokyo landed in Austria's capital. A van followed by two police vehicles was already waiting on the runway on Timanovskaya.

Timanowskaja had refused to travel to Belarus. After criticism at the coaching team, she should be sent home from her competition over 200 m. For fear of sanctions in the authoritarian state, she turned to the police and the IOC and got help from the Polish Embassy in Tokyo, where she spent the two nights before leaving.

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"The Polish Foreign Ministry has already contacted me, and also the athletics association promised me support. I hope so much that I will be safe in Poland," Timanowskaya said the picture. Her case had triggered a political scandal, in Tokyo threaten consequences of the Belarussian Olympic Committee. The IOC has initiated a disciplinary procedure against the NOK and preloaded two functionaries of the athletics association.