Belarusian Olympian Tsimanouskaya Plans To Represent Poland After Defection
udf.bySprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya flashes the victory sign during a track competition at a stadium in Szczecin, Poland, on August 15. The Belarusian sprinter who appealed for international help to avoid being forced home prematurely from the Tokyo Olympics says she wants to represent Poland, the country she defected to with her husband less than three weeks ago. Krystsina Tsimanouskaya told the RBC television channel on August 18 that she plans to apply for Polish sporting citizenship so that she can run for that country. «We will now try to change my sporting citizenship so that I can compete for the Polish national team.