A gold medal was finally won at the Paris Olympics by one of the neutral collective of athletes.
Discover incredible Insider Deals that will make your life a little bit easierIvan Litvinovich of the Individual Neutral Athletes competes during the men's trampoline finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics , Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. Ivan Litvinovich was barred from boarding a boat on the River Seine — just like all 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus whose Olympic team identity has been made almost invisible because of their nations' military invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier Friday, when the first of them won a medal, it was not the international sports signifier BLR for Belarus next to Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya’s name.in women’s trampoline for AIN, the French acronym for Individual Neutral Athlete, whose collective medals are barred from being tallied on the It was Feb. 24, 2022, that Russia invaded, four days after the Beijing Winter Games closed and still in the Olympic Truce period Russian diplomats had signed up to at the United Nations.
The IOC moved within days to urge Olympic sports bodies to pull upcoming events from Russia and Belarus and remove their teams and athletes, for reasons of security and integrity of competitions.
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