(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 05 MAR - The Russian authorities have arrested an American basketball player twice Olympic champion because she was found in possession of drugs (it would be an electronic cigarette and cannabis oil).
The athlete was stopped at customs after a flight arriving from New York in February.
She now risks her potentially 5 to 10 years.
The arrest threatens to increase tension between Moscow and Washington over the war in Ukraine.
Independent Russian media have identified the American basketball Olympic champion arrested for drugs at Moscow airport as 31 / year old Texan Brittney Griner.
The athlete plays with the Phoenix Mercury team in the women's NBA.
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