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IOC Young Leaders: Badminton Without Boundaries IOC Young Leaders - Paniz Yousefi Mojtahedi
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Tell us about yourself and what you do.
My name is Paniz Yousefi Mojtahedi and my sport is badminton. I am a badminton coach from Sweden, and the founder of “Parallel Play” and “Better Future with Fyrisfjädern (a badminton club in Uppsala).” I am a passionate entrepreneur trying to make a change in the world by sharing my vision for inclusion through sport on different types of platforms, from events such as the Global Social Business Summit 2019, the Paris Global Sports Week 2020 and the European Commission s three-day forum on the rights of a child to my organisation’s own social media channels. I am the European regional leader of the Yunus Sports Hub “COVID-19 Sports Response” established by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. And I am an IOC Young Leader. My vision for inclusion through sport is what drives me and what made me change my