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The Belarusian-born sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya set off the biggest political crisis of the Tokyo Games after her delegation tried to forcibly send her home for publicly complaining that the head coach had signed her up for the wrong Olympic event.
Three years later, she has left behind Belarus and its sporting community — whose leadership mirrors the wider repression in the country — and finally been able to compete in the Olympic events she had been training for over her whole career, the 100- and 200-meter dashes, for her new home, Poland.