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Wish Beijing Winter Olympics had a large audience.
Then, maybe, these stories would have sent a stronger message about the human need to breathe free and bring more attention to Russian tendency to cheat.
(Reuters)After bolting to Ukraine to escape political persecution in her native Belarus, Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia never thought she would again be forced to flee, this time to save her family from Russian attack.
Herasimenia, a three-time Olympic medalist, found herself among thousands of Ukrainians massing at the border with Poland as Russian troops advanced on Kyiv....
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/sport/olympic-medallist-aliaksandra-herasimenia-belarus-ukraine-spt-intl/index.html
