Is Russia In The Olympics 2024 Reddit. Ain stands for athlètes individuels neutres, which in english is individual neutral athletes. Mirra andreeva and diana shnaider on sunday, august 4, became the first russians to win a medal at the paris olympics when they took silver in the women's tennis.
The reason being, even if the ioc doesn’t ban russia, multiple sports federations will make it where the russians cannot qualify for the olympics for. Their systemic state sponsored drug cheating alone is enough for them to be expelled.