The current German member on the Athletes' Commission Britta Heidemann, the women's épée Olympic fencing champion at Beijing 2008, is set to reach her maximum eight years in 2024, having been elected at Rio 2016.

Another former fencer in Claudia Bokel had chaired the IOC Athletes' Commission from 2012 to 2016, but claimed she was "internally bullied" when she called for Russia to be banned from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro following revelations about the country's state-sponsored doping programme, with the IOC ultimately opting against a blanket ban.

Bui has been nominated by the DOSB in a bid to continue Germany's representation on the Athletes' Commission.

DOSB Athletes' Commission chair Karla Borger said "it is immensely important for us to fill the IOC Athletes' Commission with a German representative", and argued Bui has "already proven that she can successfully bring important issues such as safe sport or mental health to the decision-makers' minds".

Bui has served as an athletes' spokeswoman for the German Gymnastics Federation.

She retired from competition last year after helping Germany to win women's artistic gymnastics team bronze at their home European Championships in Munich, 11 years on from her uneven bars bronze at the European Championships in Berlin.

DOSB President Thomas Weikert backed Bui for a role on the Athletes' Commission.

"Kim Bui has gained many years of sporting and sport-political experience as a world-class athlete and as a committed athletes’ representative of the German Gymnastics Federation, which qualifies her as a candidate for the IOC Athletes’ Commission," he said.

"We will support [her] in the best possible way on [her] way and keep our fingers crossed for the election next year."

Bui expressed her gratitude to the DOSB for the nomination.

"I would like to thank the DOSB Presidium and the DOSB Athletes' Commission for the trust they have placed in me with this nomination," she commented.

"If the election is successful, I would like to work in particular for the physical and mental health of athletes worldwide and contribute my personal experience to this important topic."

Four elected positions onto the IOC Athletes' Commission are set to be available at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

This requires athletes from four different sports to be elected, with those successful put forward for election to an eight-year term as IOC members by the Session.

A full list of candidates is expected to be published by the IOC at least two months before the start of next year's Olympics on July 26.

Along with Heidemann, the terms of Jordan's Nadin Dawani, Hungary's Dániel Gyurta, Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, Egypt's Aya Medany, South Korea's Ryu Seung-min and New Zealand's Sarah Walker are set to come to an end in August next year.

Of the 23 members on the Athletes' Commission, 12 are elected and 11 appointed.

The chair of the Athletes' Commission, currently Finland's Emma Terho who was elected at Tokyo 2020, serves on the IOC Executive Board.

The IOC describes the Athletes' Commission as a link between the athletes and the IOC, but critics have argued it lacks sufficient independence.