Iran's only female Olympic medalist defects to Europe over oppression - Business Insider

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Kimia Alizadeh, 21, cited the country's treatment of women, including her, as the main force driving her defection to Europe. Alizadeh

, which added that she was expected to still try for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo with a different country's team. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran, who have been playing with me for years," Alizadeh wrote, according to. "They took me wherever they wanted. Whatever they said, I wore. Every sentence they ordered, I repeated."

 

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