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TOPSHOT - US' Women's National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, waits for the verdict inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. - Russian court found US basketball star guilty of drug smuggling. Russian prosecutors requested that Griner be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug smuggling charges. Her hearing comes with tensions soaring between Moscow and Washington over Russia's military intervention in Ukraine that has sparked international condemnation and a litany of Western sanctions. (Photo by EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA / POOL / AFP) (KEYSTONE/POOL/EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA)