His choice is made. Kimia Alizadeh, the only Iranian medalist at the Rio 2016 Games, will continue her sporting career in Germany. After turning her back on her native country, the bronze medalist in taekwondo made a stopover in the Netherlands, in the city of Eindhoven, where she continued her training for several weeks. But the Dutch national coach, Mimoun el Boujjoufi, confided it to the agency Reuters : " Kimia decided to continue in Germany ». According to the German press, the young woman would have chosen to put down her trunks in Hamburg, after having received offers to wear the colors of the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and Bulgaria. In mid-January, Kimia Alizadeh announced on her Instagram account her decision to leave Iran. “ 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. »
