“I consider the situation around the Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya scandalous.

The Czech Republic is ready to help her.

We offer her a visa to enter our territory so that she can apply for international protection with us.

Our embassy in Tokyo is also ready to help her, ”Kulganek wrote on his Twitter.

The Sports Solidarity Fund of Belarus said that Timanovskaya was forcibly deported from Tokyo, where she was supposed to compete in the Olympic Games at a distance of 200 m. x 400 m. 

Earlier, the Sports Solidarity Fund of Belarus expressed the opinion that athlete Timanovskaya was threatened with a prison in Minsk.