June 13, 2021
Olympic Highlights 18/06/2021 PRESIDENT This week, IOC President Thomas Bach was at the Swiss National Cycling Time Trials in Lausanne to give his support to one of the newly selected athletes from the IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020. President Bach was there to see Badreddin Wais cross the line in the elite men’s race. Badreddin, a refugee originally from Syria, is part of the newly announced team that will shortly be heading to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The team members will first meet up in Qatar for their welcome experience before flying to Tokyo in mid-July. Twenty-nine athletes competing across 12 sports and from 13 host NOCs will be part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020. The athletes were selected from among the refugee athletes currently supported by the IOC through the Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program.
June 13, 2021
On 08 June, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will announce the names of the athletes who will be competing at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, sending a message of hope to the world this summer and bringing further awareness to the plight of over 80 million displaced people worldwide.
June 13, 2021
Road cyclist Wais has been picked for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021.
June 13, 2021
The 29 athletes that have been chosen to compete in Japan in 2021, and deliver a message of solidarity to millions of refugees around the world.
June 13, 2021
The Syrian-born road cyclist, who left his home country in 2014 and now lives in Switzerland, has been to four UCI Road Worlds