2024-08-19 01:38:25
All my life I have defended women’s rights. I had to leave my country, be free, not be weighed down by restrictions. And it’s not just about wearing the hijab and the rules of Islam. Some people think it’s just because of that. But the bottom line is what I think and what I believe. We are the people and we should have our rights.
This is what Olympic taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal for Bulgaria in Paris, said in the BTV program “This Sunday”. She is also the first woman to win a medal for her country Iran years ago.
Kimia admitted that leaving her country was one of the hardest decisions of her life.
I smile now, but it wasn’t like that then. I received respect and support from my family and friends, she is grateful. However, she also remembers the difficult moments: “When I wanted to hug someone, I was alone. When I felt like crying, when I changed the place where I live, I was alone.”
I didn’t hold on in the last seconds and lost, we came for gold, I didn’t want to go out for bronze. I was crying. After winning the medal, I was just screaming in the ring, Kimia Alizadeh told about her emotions from Paris. And he concluded: “The medal is for us, for Bulgaria, for my country. That’s the kind of Kimia I wanted to be.”