#wtaf?!

Milady is a branded criminal. Athos realizes this only after a hunting accident that causes her to faint and he has to cut off her tight-fitting clothes before he notices the fleur-de-lis on her shoulder. Like what the heck?!

They were married, right? Did they never actually consummate their marriage??? Were they a newly-married couple??? This....this.... totally confounds me????

Belarus sprinter leaves Tokyo on flight to Vienna after seeking refuge | Belarus | The Guardian

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya expected to head to Poland amid fears she would be punished if she returned home

The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has left Japan on a Vienna-bound plane after refusing to return to Belarus because she feared she would face punishment for publicly criticising her coaches for their “negligence”.

Tsimanouskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland after she said Belarus officials attempted to bundle her on a plane. She requested police protection at Haneda airport and later took refuge at the Polish embassy in Tokyo in a scandal that has rocked the games.

Tsimanouskaya was expected to take a direct flight to Warsaw but switched at the last minute, apparently as a security precaution. The Austrian government has saidshe will travel to Poland after she lands in Vienna on Wednesday.

“As we have indicated many times, for safety reasons we do not provide details of the flight route,” the Polish deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, said in a post on Twitter. He wrote that Tsimanouskaya was “being taken care of by the Polish diplomatic service”.

Other prominent Belarusian athletes have said they feel unsafe to return to the country, where the leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has launched a harsh crackdown on opposition that has also seen athletes suspended for political opposition and even jailed.

The Belarusian heptathlete Yana Maksimava, who competed in the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, wrote that after the incident with Tsimanouskaya, she and her husband would remain in Germany and not return to Belarus because of the pressure on the opposition.

“Unfortunately you can lose not just your freedom but also your life there,” she wrote in a post on Instagram, adding in public remarks that she felt unsafe returning to the country with her young daughter. “Here you can breathe easily and be one of those who fights for free speech of one’s friends, relatives, and those you are close to. We absolutely will win,” she said.

Her husband, Andrei Krauchanka, who medaled in the Beijing games in 2008 and has openly supported the protests against Lukashenko, was among those detained and beaten during protests last year.

Tsimanouskaya said in an interview with the Associated Press that officials from her team had “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government that has relentlessly stifled any criticism.