Refugee Olympic Team: first−ever pin design revealed on World Refugee Day
20 June 2024 – The first-ever Olympic pin for the Refugee Olympic Team has been revealed today, continuing the goal of bringing the team together with their own unique identity and encouraging people to get behind the refugee athletes competing at Paris 2024. The unique design features the team’s new emblem, and in Olympic pin culture tradition, will be worn proudly and traded by athletes and fans alike at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
The first-ever design for the Refugee Olympic Team takes its inspiration from the team’s new emblem – a unifying symbol bringing together diverse athletes. The emblem features arrow way marker, signifying the shared experience of their journeys, and a heart – originating from the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) logo, to represent the hope, belonging and perseverance that the team seek to inspire and that people have found through sport.
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Olympic pins are part of the culture of the Olympic Games. Starting from a humble handmade cloth pin badge at Athens 1896 to a staple of the Games, with designs from across the Olympic Movement. The first trades likely took place at London 1908, when the delegations started to design and wear their own Olympic pins. Today, the pins are traded by athletes, volunteers and fans alike, and have become cherished collectors’ items and statement pieces, with unique designs often sought after.
A limited run of the pins will be made available for fans to show their support for the team at Paris 2024 as part of the “1 in 100 million” campaign, aiming to shine a spotlight on the 36 inspirational athletes who have faced incredible challenges to reach their start line, and to call on everyone to get behind the team at Paris 2024.
One hundred pins, representing the more-than 100 million displaced people globally, will be made available to fans ahead of Paris 2024, with details on how to get one shared on @RefugeeOlympicTeam handles in July.
Fans can also show their support for the Refugee Olympic Team with a series of digital stickers and filters on social media.
