Iran: Taekwondo champion 'disappears'

(ANSA) - TEHERAN, JAN 10 - New political-sporting storm in Iran, after the death of a twenty-one-year-old Taekwondo champion, Kimia Alizadeh, the only winner of an Olympic medal, in recent days. According to the semi-official agency Isna, the athlete decided to emigrate to Holland to compete under the flag of another country at the next Tokyo Olympics.
Kimia Alizadeh, winner of a bronze medal at the Rio Games in 2016, would not have appeared at the selections ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. On the Internet there is a low-quality photograph that seems to show the athlete discovered and in the company of other young men and women, in contravention of the Islamic norms in force in Iran that impose the veil and a strict segregation between the sexes.