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“Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home,” Griner said in a statement released through her lawyers on Tuesday.

Griner, an Olympic gold medalist and star forward for the Phoenix Mercury, was detained after authorities at a Moscow airport allegedly found cannabis oil in her luggage. However, in May, the U.S. government reclassified Griner as being “unlawfully detained,” signaling that it believes the drug charges are irrelevant to her detainment.