The Executive Board announced their measures after a meeting at Olympic House.
IOC reveals new rules for AIN at Paris 2024
by Philip Barker
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) has revealed the Flag and music to be used for any Victory Ceremonies involving athletes from Russia and Belarus at Paris 2024.
[To listen to the music which will be played for AIN winners at ceremonies, please click here.]Any competitors from the two nations will be known as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).
They have also announced that IOC Vice President Nicole Hoevertsz is to lead a newly constituted Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review Panel (AINERP).
She will be joined by Ethics Commission representative Pau Gasol and Seung Min Ryu for the Athletes’ Commission.
The IOC’s Chief Ethics and Compliance officer, Paquerette Girard Zappelli, has been appointed AINERP Secretary.
The group has been given the task of “evaluating the eligibility of each athlete with a Russian or Belarusian passport who obtains, or who could obtain, a qualification place for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, and that of their support personnel.”
The IOC EB has established that there are at present 12 AINs with a Russian passport and seven with a Belarusian passport who have qualified for Paris 2024.
The regulations set out in December stipulated that “athletes who actively support the war will not be eligible to be entered or to compete. Support personnel who actively support the war will not be entered.”
There is a ban on “athletes who are contracted to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security agencies.”
All those approved by AINERP will be asked to sign the same conditions of participation as other athletes.
This includes a commitment to respect the Olympic Charter, including “the peace mission of the Olympic Movement.”
They will also be required to comply with the anti-doping requirements leading up to Paris 2024.
As individual athletes, they are not expected to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the Games.
A decision on whether the AINS group will be allowed to participate at the Closing Ceremony is expected at a later date.
Sanctions had initially been imposed on the Russian Olympic Committee following the revelation of widespread doping irregularities at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
In 2018, those Russians permitted to take part at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were styled “Olympic Athlete from Russia” (OAR) and at Tokyo and Beijing, the designation was Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).
At Ceremonies, the ROC emblem was used with a short extract of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto number one.
The announcement of measures to be implemented for Paris 2024 comes on the same day as an IOC statement which was highly critical of plans for an alternative multi-sport event to be known as the “Friendship Games” which is expected to take place in Moscow and Yekaterinburg in September.
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