Olympics 2024 Parade of Nations Rewind

[@petarristovski8530]

where is tajikistan ?

[@Norfin90]

5:56

[@FLAGS-q5p]

The countries missing since previous Games are Russia and Belarus because Individual Neutral Athletes 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, after the French name Athlètes Individuels Neutres. The delegation is banned from using the neutral Olympic flag and Olympic anthem, and will instead use a flag depicting a circular AIN emblem and a one-off instrumental anthem, both assigned by the IOC. 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. As individual athletes, the delegation will not take part in the parade of nations during the opening ceremony, nor be listed as a delegation in the official medal tables. While the flag uses the singular wording "Individual Neutral Athlete", the IOC uses the plural wording "Individual Neutral Athletes" in prose.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

Also russia was previously banned for doping every athlete in their Olympic, Paralympic, and even her Special Olympic programs. That's the kind of Olympic Spirit from russia. They give the mentally disabled steroids so they can race 'em faster. They completely missed the point.

[@janprygoda6550]

No French banners contrary to tradition.

[@Norfin90]

Yep, that is odd.

[@tomeknguyen9840]

The French names were on the flip side of the same banner.

[@janprygoda6550]

@@tomeknguyen9840 English should be at the invisible side if any of the two had to be invisible.

[@tomeknguyen9840]

@@janprygoda6550English names were shown to the attending spectators on one side of the river and the French names were shown to the opposite side, but one could hardly see it without any help.

[@janprygoda6550]

@@Norfin90 For me it was always a nice thing to follow the order of the nations in the language of the host country. for instance in Korean, Japanese and Chinese. I noticed earlier editions in Japan followed the English order, however. I always like the inner view of nations at big events and dislike the trend that everything else than English is more and more hidden especially in Europe.