Individual neutral athletes[a] is expected to be the name used to represent approved individual russian and belarusian athletes at the 2026 winter olympics, after the international olympic committee … Now that the 2024 olympics are underway in paris, athletes from two countries are competing without a national title, flag or anthem †instead, they'll be referred to as ain. Bardzilouskaya took silver in women’s trampoline for ain, the french acronym for individual neutral athlete, whose collective medals are barred from being tallied on the official team standings.