Refugee Olympic Team
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sporting event delegation
Key facts
- Ioc code
- EOR
- Medals ranked 151st
- Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
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Wikidata facts
- Sport
- Olympic sport
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- topic's main category
- Category:Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympics
- short name
- EOR
- inception
- 2016-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox Olympics Refugees
- Commons category
- Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympic Games
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Encyclopedic overview
The Refugee Olympic Team is a group made up of independent Olympic participants who are refugees. In March 2016, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announced the creation of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team, as a symbol of hope for all refugees in the world in order to raise global awareness of the scale of the migrant crisis in Europe. In September 2017, the IOC established the Olympic Refuge Foundation to support refugees over the long term.
The Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn are used as team symbols. The participating athletes marched in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, with the team entering the stadium as the penultimate delegation, just before the host country. At the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, the team entered the stadium second after Greece.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Refugee Olympic Team” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.