Bad news for Iranian sport. The country's only Olympic medalist, taekwondo player Kimia Alizadeh, announced that she had left Iran permanently. Speaking on her Instagram account, the young woman explained her exile by her disgust with the political regime. “ I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for yearsHas she wrote. I wore everything they told me to wear. I repeated everything they ordered me to say. But they credited my medals with respecting the obligatory veil. None of us matter to them. » Kimia Alizadeh won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Games. The Iranian athlete did not want to reveal her whereabouts since leaving Iran, but she did say: “ No one invited me to Europe. » The semi-official press agency isna understands that the athlete emigrated to the Netherlands. She also suggests that she plans to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Games for another country.
