US basketball player Brittney Griner has trained slightly for the first time since her release from prison. It has not yet been decided whether she will continue her career.
grinner completed training in Russia after a ten-month break due to her imprisonment in Russia Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. That’s what her advisor said Lindsay Kagawa Colas US sports broadcaster ESPN.
If grinner However, whether her career will continue has not yet been definitively decided, says Colas: “She has no pressure.” grinner has played in the WNBA since 2013 Phoenix Mercury.
“She is reintegrating into a world that has changed for her,” said colas. “For safety reasons, she won’t be able to move around the world as before. It’s not a fate she wished for, but I think she’ll try to use her fame for good.”
Prisoner exchange between USA and Russia
grinner was released last week in a spectacular prisoner swap. The 32-year-old had been traded for the Russian arms dealer Wiktor But, known as the “Dealer of Death”.
grinner had to spend several months in Russian captivity. She was sentenced to nine years in prison for drug smuggling in early August and was most recently taken from Moscow to the Republic of Mordovia. It went to the IK-2 penal colony in Javas, 500 kilometers and an eight-hour drive from the capital.