griner
Die ehemals in Russland inhaftierte amerikanische Basketballerin Brittney Griner und ihre Ehefrau Cherelle werden zum ersten Mal Eltern. Das Baby der zweifachen Olympiasiegerin und ihre Partnerin (31) soll im Juni zur Welt kommen. «Unglaublich, dass wir weniger als drei Monate davon entfernt sind, unseren Lieblingsmenschen zu treffen», schrieb das Paar, das seit Juni 2019 verheiratet ist, auf Instagram zu einem Foto mit Ultraschallbildern und dem Hashtag «Baby Griner kommt bald». Die 33-jährige Brittney Griner war im Februar 2022 am Moskauer Flughafen wegen des Vorwurfs des Drogenbesitzes verh...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Brittney Griner made an emotional return to women's basketball on Friday, playing her first competitive game in nearly two years following her incarceration in Russia. Griner, who was released by Russia as part of a prisoner swap last year, made her first appearance in a WNBA game in 579 days as the Phoenix Mercury faced the Los Angeles Sparks in a season opener in California. US Vice President Kamala Harris was among the well-wishers at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles as the WNBA superstar finally returned to action. The two-time Olympic gold medalist made an ...
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Phoenix (AFP) - WNBA superstar Brittney Griner vowed never to play basketball overseas again on Thursday in an emotional first press conference since being released by Russia as part of a prisoner swap last year. Speaking in Arizona as she prepares to resume her career with the Phoenix Mercury, Griner pledged to keep fighting on behalf of people wrongfully detained around the world. Asked what her message would be for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and US citizen Paul Whelan, both held in Russia, Griner replied: "I would say to everyone that's wrongfully detained right across th...
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Moscow (AFP) - Basketball star Brittney Griner, whose plight has generated widespread anger in the United States, has been sent to a remote Russian penal colony, her lawyers said on Thursday. The US athlete was handed nine years in prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil, after she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. The 32-year-old's case comes amid fierce tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's military offensive in Ukraine. "Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander B...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russia is moving US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony after she lost an appeal against a drug conviction, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House. Griner, who has been jailed for nine years for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil, was transferred out of a detention centre on November 4, her legal team said. She "is now on her way to a penal colony," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement. "We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," they added. Russi...
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Washington (AFP) - Russia is moving detained US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House. Griner, convicted for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil, was transferred out of a detention center on November 4, her legal team said. She "is now on her way to a penal colony," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement. They said that Russia generally sends notifications of transforming prisoners by mail, taking up to two weeks. "We do not have any information on her exact current locat...
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Washington (AFP) - Eccentric former NBA star Dennis Rodman is planning a trip to Russia in an effort to seek the release of imprisoned WNBA player Brittney Griner, NBC News reported on Sunday. The network quoted Rodman as saying that he was hoping to fly to Russia this week in an attempt to help basketball superstar Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in jail by a Moscow court earlier this month on a drug charge. "I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl," Rodman told NBC. "I'm trying to go this week." No further details were provided by Rodman, who was speaking at a restaurant i...
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Washington (AFP) - Brittney Griner -- a world basketball great, Olympic legend and LGBT trailblazer -- now faces losing the greatest years of her career in a Russian penal colony. The 31-year-old American was convicted Thursday by a Russian court on drugs charges and sentenced to nine years in prison, even as US officials declared she was being wrongfully detained and worked behind the scenes for her release. Griner is among only 11 players to have won an Olympic gold medal, WNBA title, Women's Basketball World Cup crown and US college championship. She helped drive the US women's national tea...
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Moscow (AFP) - US basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug smuggling charges in a Russian court but denied intending to break the law in a case that has further inflamed tensions between Moscow and Washington. The two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, detained days before Russia sent troops to Ukraine, faces up to a decade behind bars for bringing vape cartridges with cannabis oil into the country. The 31-year-old basketball star told a court in the town of Khimki outside Moscow that she "would like to plead guilty" to all the charges, but stressed she had ...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden spoke with the wife of women's basketball star Brittney Griner on Wednesday, telling her that he is working to secure her spouse's release from Russian detention, the White House said. Two-time Olympic champion Griner -- who has been held in Russia since February -- faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of smuggling cannabis vape cartridges into the country. "President Biden, joined by Vice President Harris, spoke today with Cherelle Griner, the wife of Brittney Griner who is wrongfully detained in Russia under intolerable circumstances," the White Ho...
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