The International Olympic Committee wrapped up its final meeting Friday before South America’s first Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, but that won’t be the only first at these games.
A group of refugees will become a team to compete under the Olympic flag.
The International Olympic Committee made the announcement from a Swiss hotel where they have been meeting all week.
It could be described as the first Olympic team to compete without a country.
Back in April, a Syrian refugee carried the Olympic torch through a refugee camp in Greece.
Now this Olympic refugee team is expected to be five to ten athletes strong, and to include a Syrian refugee swimmer who swam across the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe and to safety.
As well as her, a Congolese judo athlete and runners from a Kenyan refugee camp, they may be the only athletes to travel from Kenya to take part in the games.
The committee members here have been talking about the doping scandal and looking at whether to ban athletes from Kenya, Russia and Mexico.