Individual Neutral Athletes to compete at Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games below identical situations as for Paris 2024

Strict eligibility situations primarily based on the recommendations issued by the IOC EB on 28 March 2023 for IFs and international sports event organisers shall be utilized for the AINs, who’re athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport. Like all the opposite athletes on the Olympic Games, the AINs will even should adjust to the principles and rules relevant on the Olympic Games, together with on anti-doping. They will even should signal the Conditions of Participation relevant to all athletes collaborating within the Milano Cortina 2026 Games. This accommodates a dedication to respect the Olympic Charter, together with “the peace mission of the Olympic Movement”.

The AINs shall be invited by the IOC in accordance with the next eligibility situations for AINs at Milano Cortina 2026, particularly:

• Qualified athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport shall be entered and compete as AINs.

• Teams of athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport is not going to be thought of.

• Athletes who actively help the warfare is not going to be eligible to be entered or compete. Support personnel who actively help the warfare is not going to be entered.

• Athletes who’re contracted to the Russian or Belarusian navy or nationwide safety companies is not going to be eligible to be entered or to compete. Support personnel who’re contracted to the Russian or Belarusian navy or nationwide safety companies is not going to be entered.

• Any such AIN, like all the opposite collaborating athletes, should meet all anti-doping necessities relevant to them within the lead-up to and on the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, and notably these set out within the IFs’ anti-doping guidelines.

The sensible utility of at this time’s IOC EB choice will be discovered within the “Principles Relating to the Implementation of the Participation for Individual Neutral Athletes and their Support Personnel with a Russian or Belarusian Passport at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games”, which is a separate document and can be found here.

As was the case for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games:

1. An Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review Panel (AINERP) shall be established to guage the eligibility of every athlete who obtains, or who might get hold of, a qualification place for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, and that of their help personnel.

The Panel shall be composed of three members:

The work of the AINERP shall be supported by the IOC Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, who will act because the Secretary of the AINERP.

2. The AINERP and the IOC administration have been delegated the authority to ask an Individual Neutral Athlete, and their help personnel, to take part within the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Once the athletes’ invites have been despatched, the IOC will publish the listing of the AINs who’ve been invited to take part.

3. The AINERP will monitor the conduct of, and respect for the Principles of Participation by, all AINs and help personnel who’re deemed eligible and who take part within the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, together with on their return after the Games.

4. The AINERP will convey any matter to the IOC Disciplinary Commission for any measures or sanctions to be utilized ought to the conduct of any AIN or their help personnel be thought of opposite to the Olympic Charter, the Milano Cortina 2026 Conditions of Participation or the Principles of Participation.

The following protocol parts with regard to the participation of AINs in Milano Cortina will proceed to use:

• This is the flag of the AINs and that is the anthem. The anthem has no lyrics and was produced solely for this goal. Both have been already used on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. During the victory ceremonies, the AIN flag shall be flown and the AIN anthem shall be performed.

• Medals gained by the AINs is not going to seem within the NOC medal desk.

• AINs is not going to take part within the parade of delegations (groups) throughout the Opening Ceremony, since they’re particular person athletes. But a chance shall be supplied for them to expertise the occasion.

• The choice relating to the participation of AINs within the Closing Ceremony shall be taken throughout the Games, making an allowance for that it’s not groups that participate within the Closing Ceremony, however all of the athletes collectively collectively.