Just under five minutes and four points. This is the American scoreboard. Brittney Griner in the U.S.-France Women’s Olympic Basketball Gold Medal Final. A match won by the US team with a minimal margin (66-67) which also allowed the US to top the medal table at Paris 2024 and believe that Brittney Griner should not have played this match, at least not according to In August 2022, a Russian court sentenced her to nine years in prison on charges of transporting cannabis oil. His luggage was searched at the Moscow airport. The detention had already become a diplomatic dispute between Russia and the United States, since the basketball player’s wife, who was then working at the UMMC Yekaterinburg, had drawn the attention of the press to the matter even before the verdict. The National Security Council told her that “the United States government will continue to work vigorously, using all available means, to bring her home.”
Prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow
Once the verdict was issued, which sentenced Britney Griner to nine years in prison and a fine of one million rubles, equivalent to 15,730 euros, Washington and Moscow began discussing the possibility of a prisoner exchange.and then materialized on December 8, 2022, at Abu Dhabi International Airport. The basketball player was thus given the opportunity to return to the United States, in exchange for Moscow obtaining the release of alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout. On August 11, 2024, 612 days after her release, Brittney Griner, the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021 Olympic gold medalist, returns to win the Olympics with the United States in Paris. His tears on the platform roam the world.
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