TOKYO: The Olympics governing body was probing Belarus's treatment of an athlete seeking refuge in Poland while Norway's Karsten Warholm smashed a world record on the track and Simone Biles was set for a highly anticipated return to the gymnastics stage on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused https://www.reuters.com/world/blinken-says-belarus-treatment-athlete-intolerable-transnational-repression-2021-08-03 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's"regime" of intolerable"transnational repression" in the matter. The American Biles, considered by many the greatest gymnast ever, was to bring a blockbuster finale to gymnastics at the Games by participating in the balance beam final, starting at 5:50 p.m. , her first competition in a week.