Five-time Olympic champion in biathlon, Frenchman Martin Fourcade and Swedish skier Frida Hansdotter, were included in the commission of IOC athletes, according to the official website of the organization.

2,307 athletes participating in the Beijing Games took part in the election of new members of the commission. Fourcade scored 971 votes, the winner of the Pyeongchang Olympics in slalom - 694.

In total, 16 candidates ran for the commission, representing 16 National Olympic Committees, all five continents and six winter sports, which was a record for the Winter Games.

Fourcade allowed the opportunity to become a coach of the Russian national biathlon The IOC Athletes' Commission is headed by the former Finnish hockey player Emma Terho. Since 2016, Yelena Isinbayeva, two-time Olympic champion in pole vault, has been a member of the commission.

Fourcade is 33 years old, he won two golds at the Olympics in Sochi and three more in Pyeongchang, he also has two Olympic silvers. The Frenchman is a 13-time world champion, a seven-time World Cup overall winner and the owner of 26 small crystal globes. Fourcade retired in March 2020.

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