LAUSANNE, Switzerland: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics refugee team will be bigger than the inaugural 10-member squad in Rio de Janeiro four years ago, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.
"At this stage we cannot say how big the team will finally be," said IOC President Thomas Bach."What we can say with some confidence is that it will be bigger than the team for Rio 2016."The IOC unveiled its first team of refugees in Rio in an effort to raise awareness of the issue and it was one of the feel-good stories of those Games.
"Qualification does not mean the overall international standards," Bach said."We want to identify those athletes who either fulfil these criteria or at least come as close as possible to these criteria." They are training in athletics, badminton, boxing, judo, karate, swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting in 11 host countries, but would come together in April next year for a joint training camp, Bach said.
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