Coaches of the national team of Belarus Arthur Shimaka and Yuri Moses were deprived of accreditation and expelled from the Olympic village due to attempts to make the athlete Christina Timanovskaya return to their homeland. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
“In the interests of the well-being of the Belarusian athletes, which are still in Tokyo, and as a temporary measure of the IOC abolished the accreditation of two coaches,” said in IOC.
On August 4, IOC opened the work of the Disciplinary Commission on the Timanovsky case. The Commission will investigate the actions of two members of the Belarusian delegation – Arthur Shumaka and the head coach of the Belarusian national team in Athletics of Yuri Moses.
Conflict Timanovskaya with representatives of the delegation of Belarus in the scandal on games in Tokyo. After the fallout of the athlete to the country’s sports leadership, it was excluded from the team. The Timanovsky herself said that she was deported from Japan against her will.
Later, the athlete stated that her public criticism of the team leadership was associated with emotional stress. She admitted that she was preparing for specific Rabits, and when he learned that she was stated on the relay, she “took the top of the emotion”