GENEVA, June 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese determine skater Han Cong and 10 different athletes will run for election to the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Fee (AC), the IOC introduced on Thursday.
Han, alongside along with his Olympic gold medal-winning associate Sui Wenjing, introduced earlier this month their return to competitors subsequent season after being absent since their victory on the Beijing 2022 Winter Video games.
The 11 athletes have been permitted by the IOC Govt Board to be candidates for the AC in the course of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Video games. The eight males and three girls from 5 totally different sports activities and 11 Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs) will vie for the 2 accessible positions on the fee.
The listing of the candidates is:
Oleksandr Abramenko (Freestyle Snowboarding, Ukraine)
Zhanbota Aldabergenova (Freestyle Snowboarding, Kazakhstan)
Dario Cologna (Cross-Nation Snowboarding, Switzerland)
Yohan Goncalves Goutt (Alpine Snowboarding, Timor-Leste)
Han Cong (Determine Skating, China)
Ilkka Herola (Nordic Mixed, Finland)
Adam Konya (Cross-Nation Snowboarding, Hungary)
Magnus Nedregotten (Curling, Norway)
Johanna Taliharm (Biathlon, Estonia)
Marielle Thompson (Freestyle Snowboarding, Canada)
Received Yun-jong (Bobsleigh, South Korea)
All athletes competing at Milano Cortina 2026 can be eligible to vote, beginning Jan. 30. Voting closes Feb. 18, with outcomes introduced the next day.
The 2 candidates who obtain essentially the most votes from at the least two totally different sports activities can be elected to serve eight-year phrases on the IOC AC. They are going to exchange Emma Terho and Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, whose phrases will finish in the course of the Video games.
Following the election, the fee will elect a chair and two vice chairs. ■
