page_title: 2016 Summer Olympics
section_title: Refugee athletes
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Summer Olympics / The Games / Participating National Olympic Committees / Refugee athletes
caption_attribution_description: Rio de Janeiro - Integrantes da Equipe OlГ­mpica de Atletas Refugiados desembarcam no RioGaleГЈo. Os atletas sГЈo refugiados do SudГЈo do Sul que vivem no QuГЄnia e disputarГЈo diferentes modalidades de corrida nas competiГ§Гµes de atletismo (Foto: Tomaz Silva/AgГЄncia Brasil)
context_page_description: The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009.
  More than 11,000 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees took part, including first-time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília, and Manaus.
  These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America. They were also the first to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country, the first summer edition to be held entirely in the host country's winter season, the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America, and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.
context_section_description: Due to the European migrant crisis and other reasons, the IOC allowed athletes to compete as Independent Olympians under the Olympic Flag. In the previous Summer Olympic Games, refugees were ineligible to compete because of their inability to represent their home NOCs. On 2 March 2016, the IOC finalized plans for a specific Refugee Olympic Team (ROT); out of 43 refugee athletes deemed potentially eligible, 10 were chosen to form the team.
caption: Refugee Olympic team arriving in Rio de Janeiro
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