“We thought about what to do, where to apply. She said she deliberately packed her belongings slowly while she was checked on every 10 minutes to see if she was ready to leave, and in the meantime, she corresponded with her husband and relatives. After that, she said a psychologist came to speak with her in a way she described as “nonsense.” Timanovskaya told the news site that an official from her national team went to her room on Sunday afternoon and told her to report to the airport in a matter of hours. "At first, I refused to delete it for a long time, but then I did it, so that they stop calling me," she said in the video. After recording a video on Instagram venting her frustrations, she said that “they started calling me with threats and demanding to delete the video if I want to go ahead in sports." Timanovskaya told Tribuna that she was “outraged” and that doing so was “a complete disrespect” because it is a distance she had never competed in before. In an Instagram post on July 30, she said that she had been included on a list to compete in the 4x400 meter relay without her consent. Timanovskaya did not detail exactly what she feared she would be jailed over, but her fear of reprisal comes after she spoke out against national sporting authorities. I didn't do anything, but they deprived me of the right to participate in the 200 meter race and wanted to send me home.”
And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus. “I am not afraid of being fired or kicked out of the national team.
“I am afraid that I might be jailed in Belarus,” she said, speaking from Tokyo’s Haneda airport.
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