The 2020 Summer Olympics are scheduled to run from July 24 to August 9, and it is unclear that Alizadeh could meet eligibility guidelines for Tokyo. BBC named Alizadeh one of the 100 most "inspiring and influential women from around world" in 2019. Alizadeh said in her Instagram post on January 11 that she no longer wanted to "sit at the table of hypocrisy, lies, injustice, and flattery." "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran with whom they have been playing for years," she wrote. "I wore whatever they told me to wear. I repeated everything they told me to say," she wrote, adding, "None of us matter to them."
