LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Monday that two individuals and one federation have received the Paris 2024 Fair Play Awards for gestures of friendship, sportsmanship and solidarity.
Norway's decathlete Sander Skotheim, Spain's Antonio Rojas, and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), received the awards at the Olympic Museum on Sunday.
The International Fair Play Committee, an organization recognized by the IOC, chose Skotheim after he continued competing despite failing to clear a height and register a score in the pole vault in the men's decathlon competition.
Rojas was the DJ at the Eiffel Tower Stadium during the 2024 Paris Olympics. He helped to defuse a row between Ana Patricia Silva Ramos of Brazil and Canada's Brandie Wilkerson during the women's beach volleyball final by playing John Lennon's classic song, Imagine.
The DOSB and its national rowing federation offered one of their boats to single-sculls rower Yauheni Zalaty - an Individual Neutral Athlete from Belarus - after Zalaty's own boat was held up in customs. Zalaty went on to take a silver medal as Germany's Oliver Zeidler won gold.
