It was expected. A first gold medal was won on Friday August 2 by the AIN delegation, the neutral individual athletes carrying a Russian or Belarusian passport. Belarusian Ivan Litvinovich (pictured above) won the men's trampoline event, as he did three years earlier at Tokyo 2020. He became the first gymnast in history to hold two Olympic trampoline titles. A feat completed by the bronze medal obtained by another member of the AIN team, the Belarusian Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, second in the women's event behind Britain's Bryony Page. « Everyone knows where I come from, what country I come from, declared Ivan Litvinovich at a press conference. Nothing has changed for me from this point of view. At the next Games, I would like to compete under my national flag, with my national anthem." As decided by the IOC before the Paris 2024 Games, the AINs do not appear in the medal rankings.
