Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Not to be confused with Ain (Bible).
Individual Neutral Athletes at the
2024 Summer Olympics
The final version of the AIN flag assigned by the IOC on 19 March 2024
IOC codeAIN
NOCAthlètes Individuels Neutres
in Paris, France
26 July 2024 (2024-07-26) – 11 August 2024 (2024-08-11)
Competitors32 in 10 sports
Flag bearer N/A (did not participate in Parade of Nations)
Medals
Gold
1
Silver
3
Bronze
1
Total
5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Russian Empire (1900–1912)
 Soviet Union (1952–1988)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Russia (1994–2016)
 ROC (2020–2022)
 Belarus (1996–2020)

Individual Neutral Athletes[a] is the name used to represent approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned those nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that is still ongoing as of 2024. The IOC country code is AIN, from the French athlètes individuels neutres.[1]

The delegation was banned from using the Olympic flag and Olympic anthem, which was the usual custom for neutral designated athletes in previous games. They instead used a teal flag depicting a circular AIN emblem and a one-off instrumental anthem, both assigned by the IOC.[2][3][4] Individual neutral athletes must be first background checked and then approved by each sport's international federation, and then by a special panel created by the IOC.[5] As individual athletes, the delegation did not take part in the parade of nations during the opening ceremony, nor was listed as a delegation in the official medal tables.[3]

While the flag uses the singular wording "Individual Neutral Athlete", the IOC uses the plural wording "Individual Neutral Athletes" in prose.[6]


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  1. ^ "La commission exécutive du CIO admet les athlètes individuels neutres aux Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 et impose des conditions d'admission strictes". Olympics.com (in French). 8 December 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference teal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b AIN Eligibility Review Panel established by IOC EB – Paris Games-time protocol elements agreed on
  4. ^ "The 15 Russian 'neutrals' at the Paris Olympics are politically isolated and rarely in the spotlight". Associated Press News. 4 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Russia still banned, but "things change", says Sebastian Coe". 20 December 2023.
  6. ^ Individual Neutral Athletes at the Olympic Games Paris 2024