Sport in Chad Nag D'garom, Dja'Gomba Yader and Bodj Dagank. Chad (CHA) sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held between 1964 and 1972 and from 1984 to 2004, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. No athletes from Chad have competed in any Winter Olympic Games. Sport in Chad The principal sports in Chad are football, basketball, athletics, boxing, martial arts and fishing, which is mostly known in Lake Chad. The national stadium is the Stade Nacional in the capital, N'Djamena. Basketball is a major sport in Chad, especially in the cities. In the last decade, its national team has
Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games their only competitor in athletics at the 2016 Olympics. On December 5, 2017, the IOC announced that Russia would be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics over its state-sponsored doping program. Russian athletes were allowed to participate under the Olympic flag as "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) if they were cleared by a panel, which was chaired by Valerie Fourneyron and had representatives from the IOC, the World Anti-Doping Agency, and the Doping Free Sport Unit of the Global Association of International Sports Federations. Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games Athletes have competed as Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games