The IOC refugee team will represent more than 100,000 displaced people worldwide at the Olympics in Paris. 36 athletes from eleven countries are coming together in the refugee team for the Olympic Games in Paris. The team is made up of 23 men and 13 women who will compete in a total of 12 sports. Who is competing from Germany?
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Refugee team at the Olympics: The athletes from Germany
Ten of the athletes named to the International Olympic Committee’s selection on Thursday have found a home in Germany. The following will be taking part in the Olympic Games in Paris:
- Ala Maso
Country of origin: Syria, sport: swimming, training location: OSP Hannover, in Germany since: 2015, Instagram - Kasra Mehdipournejad
Country of origin: Iran, sport: Taekwondo, training facility: TCC Friedrichshafen, in Germany since: 2017, Instagram - Yekta Jamali
Country of origin: Iran, sport: weightlifting, training facility: OSP Heidelberg, in Germany since: 2022, Instagram - Omid Ahmadisafa
Country of origin: Iran, sport: boxing, training facility: OSP Berlin, in Germany since: 2021, Instagram - Mohammad Amin Alsalami
Country of origin: Syria, sport: athletics, training facility: OSP Berlin / SCC Berlin, in Germany since: 2015 - Adnan Khankan
Country of origin: Syria, sport: Judo, training facility: OSP Cologne, in Germany since: 2015, Instagram - Mahboubeh Barbari Yharfi
Country of origin: Iran, sport: Judo, training location: Bayreuth, in Germany since: 2019 - Saeed Fazloula
Country of origin: Iran, sport: canoe racing, training location: Rheinbrüder Karlsruhe, in Germany since: 2015, Instagram - Arabic Sibghatullah
Country of origin: Afghanistan, sport: Judo, training location: Mönchengladbach, in Germany since: 2023 - Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani
Country of origin: Iran, sport: canoe slalom, training location: Augsburg, in Germany since: 2021, Instagram
German Olympic Sports Confederation praises refugee team
According to the German Press Agency, Thomas Weikert, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, was proud of the selection. The athletes are “a very special role model for the unfortunately far too high number of people who find themselves in a similar situation around the world and have had to leave their homeland involuntarily,” said Weikert. Nine of the appointed athletes are looked after by the DOSB. Another slalom canoeist from Iran who lives and trains in Germany is getting fit for the Olympics with the help of the World Canoe Federation.
For the first time, the selection in Paris will not start under the Olympic flag, but with its own emblem that has a heart in the middle. According to the IOC, all 36 Olympic participants have refugee status in their host country, which has also been confirmed by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Already three failures due to doping
Among others, the runner Anjelina Nadai Lohalith (29), who comes from South Sudan and who recently tested positive for the banned heart drug trimetazidine in a doping test, will not be there in Paris. It was already the third case among the candidates for the IOC refugee team.
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2024-05-02 15:12:40
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