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The International Olympic Committee said it had pulled two coaches from the Belarusian team from the Olympics, four days after trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to Belarus.
The IOC said it canceled and deleted the credentials of Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich.
The IOC said the men “were asked to leave the Olympic Village immediately and did so in the interests of the well-being of the athletes.”
Shimak and Maisevich have continued to have contact with Belarusian athletes since Sunday after the IOC linked them with the idea of taking Tsimanouskaya by car to the airport to put her on a plane to Belarus.
Tsimanouskaya had criticized the team coaches on social media and is now in Poland on a humanitarian visa.
The IOC said Shimak and Maisevich “will be given the opportunity to be heard” by its disciplinary commission investigating the case.
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