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Olympic organisers apologise for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korea
9news· 4 hours agoThe South Korean Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism Vice Minister Jang Mi Ran requested a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach over the incident, the ministry said in ...
Paris Olympics: Australia lead medal table as French bishops turn against opening ceremony blasphemy
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 10 hours agoAustralia lead medal table as France end Fiji's dominance in rugby sevens. But a wave of rows on the...
IOC apologises to South Korea over Olympics ceremony gaffe
StreetInsider· 12 hours agoPARIS (Reuters) -The International Olympic Committee apologised to South Korea on Saturday after its delegation of athletes were introduced as from rival North Korea at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
IOC apologizes for wrongly introducing South Korea as North Korea during Opening Ceremony
FTW Outdoors via Yahoo Canada Sports· 16 hours agoThe Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony was an absolutely stunning display of the country's history of...
Paris 2024: IOC apologizes for South Korea gaffe – DW – 07/27/2024
Deutsche Welle· 17 hours agoThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) said sorry on Saturday for introducing South Korea's...
Are the Olympic Games politically neutral? - EconoTimes
EconoTimes· 19 hours agoIn the early 20th century, the father of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, wrote that the competition ought to be “free from political interference”. Take the example of Algerian ...
South Korea stung by Paris Olympics opening ceremony introduction as North Korea
New York Times· 20 hours agoThe IOC was forced to issue a “deep apology” for the incident which saw the South Korean delegation...
Olympic organizers 'deeply apologize' for introducing South Korea’s delegation as being from North...
AOL· 21 hours agoOlympic organizers said early Saturday that they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s delegation of athletes as being from North Korea during Friday night’s Opening Ceremony. As ...
Olympics organisers 'deeply apologise' for mistakenly calling South Korea North Korea during opening...
Sky News via Yahoo Canada News· 21 hours agoOlympics officials have "deeply apologised" for announcing South Korean athletes as North Korean...
Magnificent and humbling: the Paris opening ceremony was a tribute to witnessing superhuman feats of...
The Conversation· 1 day agoThere has never been an opening ceremony quite like it. For the first time in Olympic Games history, the ceremony took place outside a stadium arena. Despite a rainy and miserable Paris evening ...