Brittney Griner, released last week in a prisoner exchange after spending nine times in prison in Russia, trained on Sunday for the first time since leaving the United States last February. According to her agent, the star Mercury player was satisfied with a short session, and ESPN reports that his first shot was a dunk.
Currently in San Antonio where she is undergoing a battery of physical and psychological tests with US Army doctors, the player will remain there until further notice, and nothing says that she will resume her career.
“If she wants to play, it will be up to her to announce it” warns Lindsay Kagawa Colas. “She has the holidays to rest and decide what to do next without any pressure. She’s doing really well. It seems that she has taken it all in an incredible way”.
No return to normal life
Also according to her agent, Griner has planned to speak to the press this week, and for now, she is in a hotel, with her wife Cherelle, and members of her family. On Saturday, his father came to visit him on the American base.
When she is allowed to leave this camp, it is not certain that she will immediately return to Phoenix. “At the moment, there is no timetable for his return. She reintegrates into a world that has changed for her. From a purely security standpoint, she won’t be able to move around the world like she used to. She didn’t ask to go through this, but I think she’s going to try to use her fame for good. »
Griner would thus consider actively campaigning for the release of American citizens unjustly imprisoned abroad, such as Paul Whelan, this Marine detained in Russia for four years for espionage. His name had been mentioned in the prisoner exchange, but Russia refused.
