Iran's only female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh –– who defected from her country in a blistering online letter –– is training in the Netherlands for this year's Tokyo Olympics, her coach says
Alizadeh won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, drawing praise from her compatriots including Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and even conservatives in the Islamic Republic.
But she announced her permanent departure from Iran citing the "hypocrisy" of a system that she claimed humiliated athletes while using them for political ends in a blistering online letter that also described herself as "one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran."
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