Photo: Facebook via NZ HeraldA Kiwi Olympic hero spent four nights banged up in a filthy Thai jail after a visa mix-up. Marc Ryan, a champion cyclist who won back-to-back Olympic bronze medals, was arrested leaving a Bangkok gym on December 9. Immigration police chiefs alleged that Ryan, 37, had been working at Bangkok Get Fit cycling studio without a work permit. Ryan didn't work from August to October while going through a new work visa application. He told the Herald he'd been granted a non-immigrant B visa – the initial visa that foreigners on a travel visa must acquire before applying for a work visa – when he was arrested earlier this month.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 28, 2019 07:18 UTC