Iranian skier Atefeh Ahmadi, who competed in the 2022 Olympics, has left her home country and sought asylum in Germany, the London-based NGO Iran International reported on Saturday. Atefeh Ahmadi, in her twenties, was the only Iranian skier qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics. “I left Iran to achieve my goal, but my heart is with Iran,” she told the NGO. “If I could, I would stand with the people so that we can achieve freedom together. Iran has been in the grip of a protest movement since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd arrested three days earlier by the police for violating the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic which imposes the wearing of the veil women in public.
An Iranian skier from the 2022 Olympics takes refuge in Germany
