Brittney Griner hails ‘great day’ as US prisoners released from Russian detention
by Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6PP4Q)
- Basketball star is competing for USA at Paris Olympics
- Griner was part of prisoner swap with Russia in 2022
Brittney Griner knows only too well the emotions of being involved in a prisoner swap, and she said on Thursday night she is head over heels" that fellow Americans have arrived home from Russia.
Great day. It's a great day. It's a great day," Griner said after the US women beat Belgium 87-74 to clinch a berth in the Paris Games quarter-finals. We'll talk more about it later. But head over heels happy for the families right now. Any day that Americans come home, that's a win. That's a win."
The two-time Olympic gold medalist went through her own prisoner exchange with Russia in 2022 after having been sentenced to nine years in jail for drug possession and smuggling.