Olympic organisers apologise for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korea
Paris (AP/PTI): Olympic Games organisers said they “deeply apologise” for introducing South Korea's athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony in Paris.
As the South Korean athletes waved their nation's flag on a boat floating down the Seine River Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. South Korea is the Republic of Korea.
“We deeply apologise for the mistake that occurred when introducing the Korean team during the opening ceremony broadcast,” the International Olympic Committee said in a post on X in Korean.
The 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 a statement on Saturday.
It said the ministry also asked South Korea's Foreign Ministry to file “a strong government-level complaint” with the French government.
The statement said South Korea's Olympic committee separately asked the organisers of the Paris Games to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.
The Korean peninsula has been bitterly divided into South Korea and North Korea since the end of World War II in 1945.
The blue sign on the boat carrying the South Korean athletes did show the correct name.
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Attempt to derail goods train in Ajmer, cement blocks kept on freight corridor tracks
Jaipur (PTI): An attempt to derail a loaded goods train was made in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan by putting two cement blocks on tracks of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, railway officials said on Tuesday.
They said a goods train did hit the blocks, weighing around 70 kg each, but nothing untoward occurred.
"Some miscreants put two cement blocks on tracks on the dedicated freight corridor on Sunday. A goods train hit them," a North Western Railway official said.
The incident occurred between Saradhna and Bangad stations of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor on the Phulera-Ahmedabad stretch.
A freight corridor official said a case has been registered and the matter is under investigation.
The report comes a day after an attempt to derail the Bhiwani-Prayagraj Kalindi Express
was made in Kanpur by placing an LPG cylinder on tracks, along with a bottle of petrol and matchboxes.
