OLY: Koreans fail to agree joint march for opening ceremony

AAP Sports News (Australia), August, 2008

AAP Sports News (Australia) 08-07-2008 OLY: Koreans fail to agree joint march for opening ceremony BEIJING, Aug 7 AFP - North and South Korea have failed to reach an agreement to allow their athletes to march as one unified team at the Olympic opening ceremony, IOC President Jacques Rogge said today. Rogge said the International Olympic Committee had been hoping the two Koreas would march together in a joint team for Friday's procession as they had done in Sydney in 2000 and four years later in Athens. "We have tried to have this in Beijing but unfortunately this was not possible," Rogge told reporters.

"Unfortunately the political leaders in the North and the South did not agree." Rogge said the two teams would walk one behind the other as the...

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