The professional basketball star Brittney Griner has arrived in the US this Friday, at the airport in San Antonio, Texas.
Griner was seen getting off the plane at six in the morning (local time).
In the video that accompanies this news, you can see the five scenes that have marked the last 10 months of the player's life.
From the detention in a Russian airport to the international political support that finally resulted in the exchange of detainees between Washington and Moscow.
The basketball player, who was a two-time Olympic gold medalist and is the star of the Phoenix Mercury team, had been sentenced to nine years in prison for drug trafficking after being arrested in Russia.
The player herself carried in her luggage vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, prohibited in Russia.
She used them, like other athletes, for medicinal purposes, to relieve pain.
Griner was released in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as
the merchant of death
.
The athlete's return to her country puts an end to what US President Joe Biden called months of "hell for her and her wife."
The athlete is scheduled to be transferred to the Brooke Army Medical Center hospital for a medical examination, confirmed John Kirby, spokesman for the United States National Security Council.
Griner "seems to be in good spirits and in good health," Kirby said in an interview with MSNBC television.
