Taekwondo - Iran's only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh holds a press conference - Musado Training Center, Lunen, Germany - January 24, 2020 Kimia Alizadeh with the media after the press conference REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
LUENEN, Germany (Reuters) - Iran's only female Olympic medallist, Kimia Alizadeh, wants to compete for Germany as soon as the next Games in Tokyo, but regardless of whether she achieves that ambition, she never expects to return to her home country.
Alizadeh, who won taekwondo bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, announced earlier this month that she had defected to Europe because she felt she had been used as a propaganda tool by Iran.
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