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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Brittney Griner in Texas medical facility as political fallout over swap continues

The Brooke Army Medical Center, where basketball star Brittney Griner is receiving a medical checkup, in San Antonio, Texas.
The Brooke Army Medical Center, where basketball star Brittney Griner is receiving a medical checkup, in San Antonio, Texas. Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters

Brittney Griner, the American basketball star who has been released from almost 10 months of detention in Russia in a prisoner swap with the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, is undergoing physical and mental evaluation at a Texas army facility as part of her rehabilitation to the US.

The two-time Olympic gold medalist is being debriefed at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. She arrived back in the US on Friday morning and was immediately taken for what was being described as “extensive health evaluations”.

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