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Refugee Olympic Team At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The IOC Refugee Olympic Team (, ÉOR) competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. 37 athletes from 11 countries of origin represented the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in 12 sports, with Iran at the 2024 Summer Olympics#Other Iranians, 14 of the 37 athletes being Iranian. Yahya Al Ghotany and Cindy Ngamba were the delegation's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. Medalists Cindy Ngamba won a bronze medal, becoming the first-ever Olympian to win a medal for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympics, Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympic Games. Team selection On 2 May 2024, the International Olympic Committee, IOC announced that 36 athletes would represent the Refugee Olympic Team, before adding the 37th athlete afterward. Competitors Masomah Ali Zada is the ''Head of mission, chef de mission'' for the team. The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics ;Track and road events ;Men ;Women ;Field events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Flag
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses icons, flags and symbols to elevate the Olympic Games. These symbols include those commonly used during Olympic competition—such as the flame, fanfare and theme—as well as those used throughout the years, such as the Olympic flag. The Olympic flag was created in 1913 under the guidance of Pierre de Coubertin, Baron de Coubertin of France. It was first hoisted in Alexandria, Egypt, at the 1914 Pan-Egyptian Games. The five rings on the flag represent the inhabited continents of the world (the Americas were considered as one continent and Europe was treated as distinct from Asia). It was made to contain the colours (blue, black, red, yellow, and green) which are common to almost all flags around the world. Motto and creed The traditional Olympic motto is the hendiatris ''Citius, Altius, Fortius'' which is Latin for "Swifter, Higher, Stronger". It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin upon the creation of the International Olympic Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorian Keletela
Dorian Keletela (born 6 February 1999) is a Congolese-born refugee sprinter. Life Born in the Republic of the Congo in 1999, Keletela came to Portugal in 2016 fleeing the conflict in Congo. Aged 17 he spent over a year in refugee centres, and set about learning a new language and adapting to a new way of life. He has been training with Sporting Clube de Portugal in Lisbon. He ran a 6.79s second 60m in February 2020, and a 10.46s 100m in August 2020. Whilst competing as one of 29 athletes across 12 disciplines representing the IOC refugee Olympic team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ..., Keletela ran a personal best 10.33 seconds for the 100 metres to win his preliminary heat. Competitions References 1999 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Rezanejad
Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani (; born 18 January 2000) is an Iranian slalom canoeist. He competed as part of the IOC Refugee Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early and personal life Originally from Iran, he started canoeing at the young age of 7 years-old. He initially started with flat water canoeing before switching to canoe slalom. He fled the country in 2020 by walking for 16 days and nights through the mountains which border Iran and Turkey. He eventually settled in Augsburg, Germany where he now lives and trains. He is fluent in Farsi, Turkish, English and German. Career He started his international career in 2015 and represented Iran at the 2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. After a three years away from the sport he received clearance to compete as a refugee athlete in 2023. He began to train with German coach Jurgen Koehler. He made his ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup debut in Augsburg in 2024. He was selected to be a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Breakdancing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics ran from 9 to 10August at Place de la Concorde, marking the sport's official debut in the program and the first dancesport discipline to appear in Summer Olympic history. Following its successful debut at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, breaking was confirmed as one of the three additional sports, along with sport climbing and surfing, approved for Paris 2024. The competition saw a total of thirty-three breakers (sixteen b-boys and seventeen b-girls) staged in face-to-face single battles. IOC president Thomas Bach stated that breaking was added as part of an effort to draw more interest from young people in the Olympics. Inclusion Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is set not to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manizha Talash
Manizha Talash (; born 2002), known competitively as b-girl Talash, is an Afghan breakdancer. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. Biography Talash was born in 2002 and grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan. She first discovered breakdancing at age 17 through a Facebook video. She said that "When I saw a video online of a man just spinning over his head ... I immediately told myself: 'That's what I want to do with my life! She was able to get in contact with the man in the video and joined a breakdancing club in Kabul, called Superiors Crew, where she was one of 56 members and the only girl. Talash was described by media sources as "Afghanistan's first female breakdancer", and she faced challenges as dancing is viewed negatively by many in Afghanistan. She continued breakdancing despite receiving opposition from her family and a number of death threats; her club was the target of bombings three times, with two going off a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Ahmadisafa
Omid Ahmadisafa (born 24 September 1992) is an Iranian kickboxer who competed for Iran Kickboxing National Team. Biography Omid Ahmadi Safa was born in 1992 in Tehran. He is martial artist and a former member of Iran's national boxing and kickboxing teams, who has won medals in boxing and kickboxing. Safa's asylum in Germany was published in the media on November 5, 2021. Championships and awards * WAKO World Championship ** 2017 WAKO World Muay Thai Championship ** 2015 WAKO Asian Championship ** 2020 World Muay Thai Championship See also * List of WBC Muaythai world champions * List of Muay Thai practitioners This is a list of highly notable Muay Thai practitioners (also known as nak muay). Legend * Nai Khanomtom (circa 1700s) - a legendary Thai soldier and boxer during the era of the Ayutthaya Kingdom who become known as the founder of Muay Tha ... * List of male kickboxers References External links * Living people 1992 births Iranian mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badminton At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The badminton tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 5 August at Porte de la Chapelle Arena. A total of 172 badminton players, with an equal distribution between men and women, will compete across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions. Qualification 172 badminton quota places, with an equal split between men and women, are available for Paris 2024; NOCs can enter a maximum of eight badminton players across five medal events (men's and women's singles; men's, women's, and mixed doubles). The host nation France reserves a spot each in the men's and women's singles to be officially awarded to its respective highest-ranked badminton player, while four places (two per gender) are entitled to the eligible NOCs interested to have badminton players compete for Paris 2024 under the Universality principle. The remaining badminton players must undergo a direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorsa Yavarivafa
Dorsa Yavarivafa (; born 31 July 2003) is an Iranian badminton player who competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Biography Introduced to badminton by her father when she was nine years old, Yavarivafa left Iran aged 15 along with her mother. Using fake German passports, they fled the country in November 2018 because her mother wanted to change her religion and Yavarivafa had repeatedly been rejected by the national badminton team without being told why. Her father, who sells car parts, stayed in Iran in case his wife and daughter needed to go back. Starting in Turkey then moving on to Germany, Belgium and France, Yavarivafa and her mother eventually arrived in England at the end of 2019. Having been given permission to stay in the country, she initially lived in Birmingham before moving to London. There she was introduced to former badminton player now Athletes’ Department Director at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kaveh Mehrabi, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perina Lokure Nakang
Perina Lokure Nakang (born 2003) is a middle-distance runner from South Sudan. Early life Born in South Sudan, she left to seek sanctuary in Kenya with her aunt in 2010 at the age of seven years-old due to the conflict in her home country. They lived in a UNHCR refugee camp in Kakuma, northern Kenya. She was later reunited with her mother and four siblings, although her father died after she had fled. She attended the boarding school the All4Running Shoes4Africa Secondary School in Kapsabet, Kenya. Career Part of the World Athletics U20 refugee programme and the African Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN) and Youth Education and Sports (YES). She is coached by Janeth Jepkosgei in a group that also contains Brenda Chebet and Nelly Chepchirchir. She finished seventh at the Kenyan national trials 800m race in 2023. She competed in the 800 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. She competed at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Amin Alsalami
Mohammad Amin Alsalami ( ar, محمد أمين السلامي; born 25 July 1994) is a Syrian long jumper who holds the Syrian national record. Early life From Aleppo, Syria, he is one nine siblings. Initially a sprinter, he was encouraged by a sports teacher to take up long and triple jump as a teenager. After war broke out in Syria his family was displaced a number of times in Syria before fleeing in a dinghy across the Mediterranean Sea and walking across Europe on foot. He ultimately sought refugee status in Germany, settling in Berlin in October 2015. Career He set an indoors personal best of 7.87 metres in 2022. That year, he set an outdoors personal best of 7.88 metres. He competed as part of the refugee team at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the first member of the refugee team to compete in a technical event. In May 2024, he was confirmed on the IOC Refugee Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachlowini Gabriyesos
Tachlowini Melake Gabriyesos (born 1 January 1998) is an Eritrean-born long-distance runner. He lives and trains in Tel Aviv, where he runs with the Emek Hefer club and is supported by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Athlete Scholarship. He has competed over 3000 metres, 5000 metres, 10,000 metres, the half marathon and the marathon. He finished in 16th place at the 2020 Olympics. Early life and background Tachlowini Melake Gabriyesos is estimated to have been born in 1998. He is the second of seven children. He and a friend fled Eritrea in 2010, at just 12 years of age, to escape escalating violence. Tachlowini opened up about the reason for this decision in an interview: "a lot of people at the time were leaving Eritrea, and we were just thinking together that we wanted to go to another place, where we could live like human beings and have opportunity". Soldiers began barging into houses in search of people to fight in the army, which frightened Tachlowini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed
Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed ( Arabic: جمال عبد المجي عيسى محمد; born 25 August 1993) is a Sudanese-born runner competing internationally over 5,000 and 10,000 metres. Mohammed was one of 29 athletes across 12 disciplines who represented the refugee Olympic team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Career In 2003, when he was 10 years old, members of the Janjaweed militia came to burn down his village and killed 97 people, including his father. In 2010 he fled the violence in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region aged 17, and Mohammed spent three days crossing the Sinai Desert from Egypt to Israel on foot, where he was eventually granted refugee protection. He found employment in Tel Aviv and joined a running club, The Alley Runners in 2014. He finished 40th in his European Cross Country Champion Clubs Cup debut in 2017, 30th in 2018, and 22nd in the 2019 edition on 3 February in Albufeira, Portugal. Competitions See also * Refugees of Sudan * Sudanese in Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
