AFP: A gender-balanced team of three men and three women will represent Afghanistan in Paris next month in a symbolic move for the first summer Olympics since the Taliban surged to power. The chief executive of Afghanistan’s national Olympic committee (NOC), Dad Mohammad Payenda Akhtari, told AFP all of the athletes, except the judoka, were based outside Afghanistan. The Afghan athletes will compete under the black, red and green flag and anthem of the Western-backed former republic, which was ousted by the Taliban in August 2021. “No representative of the de facto authorities, the Taliban government, will be accredited” for the Olympics, said IOC spokesman Mark Adams. Click here to read more (external link).
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