Tag: Olympic medalist

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Iran's only female Olympic medalist abandons the country fed up with oppression and forced to follow orders

  

  Iran's only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool. Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, implied in an Instagram post that she had moved to Europe. She wrote on an account she has used for some time, but it was not immediately possible to verify her location.