The International Olympic Committee Refugee Olympic Foundation and Team (IOC), created to support and offer potential elite athletes with refugee status from the United Nations the opportunity to qualify and participate in the Olympic Games, have been distinguished this Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2022. Among the candidates who did not win the award are the athlete Allyson Felix, the badminton player Carolina Marín and the motorcyclists Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez.
The IOC-endorsed Refugee Olympic Team created in 2015 competed for the first time in Rio de Janeiro 2016 with the participation of ten athletes from Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and South Sudan, who participated in athletics, judo And swimming, a representation that rose to 29 athletes at Tokyo 2020.
Of the 29 athletes, a total of seven participated in athletics: Anjelina Nadai Lohalith (fell in heats of 1,500m), Dorian Keletela (passed one round in the 100m), Jamal Abdelmaji Mohammed (eliminated in the first round of 5,000m), James Nyang Chiengjiek (last in 800m heats), Paulo Amotun Lokoro (very far in the first 1,500m race), Rose Nathike Liyonyen (eliminated first in the 800m) and Tachlowini Gabriyesos (16th in marathon).
The award also goes tothe Olympic Refugee Foundation, created in 2017 by the IOC, in collaboration with UNHCR, with a commitment to support the protection and sporting and personal development of displaced athletesbeyond the Olympic appointments.
The last Princess of Asturias Awards for Sport have gone to the triathlete Javier Gómez Noya (2016), the rugby All Blacks (2017), the mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Krzysztof Wielicki (2018), the skier Lindsay Vonn (2019), the pilot Carlos Sainz (2020) and Paralympic swimmer Teresa Perales (2021).
Athletics was recognized in these awards from the first edition in 1987 in the figure of Sebastian Coe and then repeated with Sergei Bubka (1991), Javier Sotomayor (1993), Hassiba Boulmerka (1995), Carl Lewis (1996), the Spanish team marathon (1997), Hicham El Guerrouj (2004), Yelena Isinbayeva (2009), Haile Gebrselassie (2011) and the New York Marathon (2014).
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