{"id":371115,"date":"2024-02-27T19:53:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=371115"},"modified":"2024-02-27T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:02:48","slug":"olympic-coach-handed-five-year-ban-for-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=371115","title":{"rendered":"Olympic coach handed five-year ban for 'abuse of power'"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Olympic<\/a> track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games<\/a> to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Yury Moisevich's actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be \u201ca clear affront to the athlete\u2019s dignity and an abuse of … power", track and field\u2019s Athletics Integrity Unit said.<\/p>\n

He also was found guilty of \u201cproviding false or inaccurate information in the course of events leading up to the athlete\u2019s departure from the Olympic village\u201d in August 2021.<\/p>\n

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The 63-year-old coach is banned from working in track and field until February 2029.<\/p>\n

Tsimanouskaya\u2019s ordeal in Tokyo became a diplomatic incident<\/a> during the second half of the Summer Games.<\/p>\n

\"Krystsina<\/p>\n

She went on social media during the games to question why she had been entered in the 4x400m relay without her knowledge and despite never racing the event. The Belarus track team had lost some athletes because of doping issues.<\/p>\n

Coaches decided to send her home and she was escorted by team officials to Haneda Airport in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

At the airport, Tsimanouskaya spoke on the phone to her grandmother, who told her of a backlash against her from state-run media at home. President Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s government had cracked down on dissent since his disputed re-election one year earlier.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko was the longtime head of the Belarus Olympic Committee, though he had been suspended by the IOC from coming to Tokyo in the fallout from widespread pro-democracy protests. Athletes in Belarus said they had faced reprisals and intimidation.<\/p>\n

Belarusian athletes in Tokyo were still under the control of state-backed officials who tried to get Tsimanouskaya back to Minsk.<\/p>\n

Tsimanouskaya sought help at the airport from police who took her away from Belarusian officials. She took refuge in Poland\u2019s embassy in Tokyo and was given a humanitarian visa to travel there days later.<\/p>\n

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Four days after the episode at the airport, the IOC revoked Olympic credentials for Moisevich who led a team of 31 athletes in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

The disciplinary case was helped by Tsimanouskaya because she \u201crecorded part of her conversations with Moisevich, the content of which served as evidence during the hearing", the AIU said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dignity of all athletes is of paramount importance and every attempt must be made to guarantee the environment in which they compete is free of harassment, abuse and bad faith dealings of any kind," the Monaco-based AIU's chairman, David Howman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Tsimanouskaya was cleared last year to run for Poland at the world championships. She was eliminated in the heats of the 100 metres, reached the semi-finals in the 200m and was in the 4x100m relay team that placed fifth.<\/p>\n

Now aged 27, she is a contender to race for her new home nation at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, where track and field events start on August 1 at Stade de France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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