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Daniel Bird

WNBA's Brittney Griner stuns at Met Gala after release from a Russian penal colony

Brittney Griner left onlookers stunned as she posed on the world-famous steps of the Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Her appearance at the glamourous event comes just five months after she was released from a Russian penal colony on December 8.

The WNBA centre, 32, had played professional basketball in Russia since 2014 but was returning to the country in February 2022 when she was stopped at Moscow airport.

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