Casting change at the Athletes' Commission of the Association of European Olympic Committees (EOC). The 6th assembly of the body's athletes, organized on Saturday October 2 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, was marked by the election of a new promotion. Its members were elected for the period 2021-2023/2025. More than 70 athletes and representatives of European National Olympic Committees attended the meeting. They proceeded with the election of eight members of the athletes' commission, six for summer sports and two for winter sports. For the summer, the elected officials are the Frenchwoman Gwladys Epangue (taekwondo, 35 votes), the Croatian Blanka Vlasic (athletics, 35 votes), the British Alistair Brownlee (triathlon, 29 votes), the Slovak Alexandra Longova (shooting arch, 23 votes), the Estonian Gerd Kanter (athletics, 21 votes), and the Greek Pavlos Kagialis (sailing, 20 votes). For the winter, the two athlete representatives on the commission will now be the Russian Jonathan Guerreiro (figure skating, 31 votes), and the Hungarian Viktor Knoch (short-track, 11 votes). At the end of their first meeting, the new members of the EOC Athletes' Commission re-elected Gerd Kanter as president, for a new two-year term, and Jonathan Guerreiro as vice-president. Alexandra Longova was appointed secretary.
