Female Olympic medallist, Kimia Alizadeh, with her parents in Germany

Refugee Olympic Team's Kimia Alizadeh (Blue) and Iran's Nahid Kiyani Chandeh (Red) compete in the taekwondo women's -57kg elimination round bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Tokyo on July 25, 2021."I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years," the athlete wrote in an Instagram post in 2020 explaining why she was defectingThe 23-year-old was granted refugee status in Germany and now lives in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg.