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WNBA star Brittney Griner gets emotional discussing her 10-month Russian detainment: ‘I’m no stranger to hard times’

Por: Orlando Sentinel Sports April 27, 2023

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PHOENIX — Hope bounced around Brittney Griner like a buoy and an anchor. The hope of returning home and hope of a miracle were all she had all those months in a Russian prison. On the days hopelessness crept in, days that grew as her detainment stretched into a second winter, optimism drowned in despair. Photos of her family a half-world away kept Griner afloat. “Just being able to see their faces, that did it for me,” Griner said Thursday... + full article



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