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Alizadeh, who won taekwondo bronze at the Rio
2016 Olympics, had been training in the southern Dutch city of
Eindhoven, after leaving Iran several weeks earlier.
"Kimia has decided to continue in Germany," Dutch national
taekwondo coach Mimoun el Boujjoufi told Reuters on Monday.
German newspaper Bild this weekend reported that Alizadeh wished
to continue her career in Germany and had moved to Hamburg,
after having also received offers to compete for the
Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and Bulgaria.
"After the explosion (of interest) many fought for her
attention," El Boujjoufi said.
She had written on Instagram this month she was prepared to
accept the "hardship of homesickness" because she "didn't want
to be part of hypocrisy, lies, injustice and flattery".
"I wore whatever they told me and repeated whatever they
ordered. Every sentence they ordered I repeated," she wrote.
"None of us matter for them, we are just tools."
Mahin Farhadizadeh, a deputy Iranian sports minister, said at
the time he had not read Kimia's post, adding "as far as I know
she always wanted to continue her studies in physiotherapy", the
semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
Alizadeh is one of several Iranian sportspeople to clash with
the Iran authorities of late.
Iranian chess referee Shohreh Bayat who has been accused of
violating her country's Islamic dress code while adjudicating a
women's tournament said last week she did not want to return
home from Russia out of fear for her safety.
Earlier this month, Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejaziour
was expelled from the national team for not wearing the hijab at
the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Moscow.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Alison Williams)
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