The International Olympic Committee expects to decide in two years if it will have a refugee team at the 2020 Olympics, an official said Tuesday.
The first Olympic refugee team competed in Rio, with 10 athletes in three sports from South Sudan, Syria, Congo and Ethiopia.
“To have the Olympic refugee team in Rio was not an objective in itself,” Pere Miro, the IOC’s Deputy Director General for Relations with the Olympic Movement, told media in Lausanne, Switzerland. “It was a mean to put that in front of the world. … We go step by step.