KHIMKI — U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner told a Russian court on Wednesday she was not read her rights when detained at a Moscow airport in February, as…
The two-time Olympic champion was on her way to join her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, for the playoffs after spending time at home in the United States.
Seated in the defendant’s cage, Griner said she was provided with an interpreter at the airport who just told her: “Surname. Sign.” “I do plead guilty because of the actions that have happened but again, I did not intend to smuggle or bring any substance into Russia,” she said. Griner said she had been prescribed medical cannabis in the United States to treat chronic injuries in the offseason, a treatment not uncommon among elite athletes in countries where the substance is allowed. It is, however, illegal in Russia.
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