Mirza Nikolajev among the dressed athletes of the Uniform Support Programme for Beijing 2022

Lausanne (IOC/FIL) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) collaborated with the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) and five of the world’s leading sporting goods brands to provide athletes from 12 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) with state-of-the-art competition uniforms to help them perform at their best at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.

Olympic Luge athlete Mirza Nikolajev from Bosnia and Herzegovina was among the athletes who were fitted as part of the Beijing 2022 programme. "For those of us who don't have the latest high-tech competition clothing, the programme to support competition uniforms is great," he says. "It provided us with our own state-of-the-art gear for the Games, sponsored by the brands in the programme and tailored just for us."

Through the NOC Competition Uniform Support Programme, athletes with the greatest need were supplied free-of-charge with vital technical clothing, which they would not otherwise have had access to. The programme has supported more than 1,000 athletes from 94 NOCs since it was introduced for the Olympic Games Rio 2016, with athletes subsequently benefiting from the programme at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, as well as Beijing 2022.

Thirty-six athletes benefited from the programme in Beijing, which saw WFSGI-affiliated brands Adidas, Descente, Mizuno, Odlo and Under Armour provide competition uniforms tailored for each athlete, using the colours of their respective NOCs.

Photo: IOC

Video of the programme: https://youtu.be/oGTX4ekXZcI