The IOC Refugee Olympic Team competed at the

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, as

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. The

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is the French acronym "EOR", which stands for . This was the second appearance of a

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team in the summer Olympics, following the 2016 Games. For the 2020 Games the team included 29 athletes, up from 10 in the 2016 team. The team comprised athletes originating from 11 nations who currently reside and train across 13 host nations, supported by the IOC's Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program. At the

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, the IOC Team, according to the Japanese script traditional order and English pronunciation of IOC in Japanese, was the second to parade after

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who traditionally parade first.

Team selection

The team was selected on 8 June 2021, represented in the following list, together with each competitor's country of origin and their host

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(NOC).

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics

;Track & road events ;Men ;Women

Badminton

Refugee Olympic Team entered one male player to compete at the Games. Aram Mahmoud will competing in the men's singles event after received invitational by the IOC.

Boxing

Canoeing

Sprint

Cycling

Road

Judo

;Mixed

Karate

;Kumite ;Kata

Shooting

Swimming

Taekwondo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

;Greco-Roman

References

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