Paris 2024: with 36 athletes, the refugee Olympic team wants to emerge from the shadows for its third edition
“We welcome you all with open arms. You are an enrichment for our Olympic community and for our societies.” It is with these words that Thomas Bach concluded his speech presenting the Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) from Lausanne (Switzerland), Thursday May 2.
The IOC President announced the members of the third Olympic delegation since 2016, in the presence of the team’s chef de mission, Masomah Ali Zada, who competed as part of the Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2021, and Yiech Pur Biel, member of the first refugee Olympic team at Rio 2016. Here’s what you need to remember.
There were 10 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) for the first edition in 2016, there were 29 in Tokyo (Japan) in 2021, there will be 36 in Paris. The composition of the team will represent “more than 114 million displaced people around the world, 50 million more than at the end of 2016″according to Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The composition of the Refugee Olympic team for Paris 2024 is based on a certain number of criteria, in particular and above all on the sporting performances of each of the athletes and on their refugee status confirmed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Women. refugees. Particular attention was paid to the balanced representation of sports and genders, as well as the geographical distribution of countries of origin.
During the opening ceremony, the team will march behind the Olympic flag, in second position, immediately after Greece. For all official team appearances (including any medal ceremonies), the Olympic flag will be raised and the Olympic anthem played. Like the 206 other delegations, the team will be accommodated in the Olympic village, specifies the IOC.
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