Yesterday the Olympic events got underway with the women’s football, and there was quite an embarrassing faux pas made as the North Korean side took to the field for their game against Colombia, they were shocked to realise they were being introduced with the South Korean flag.
The team stormed off and delayed the game by over an hour before returning to win 2-0, while this is clearly a genuine mistake it is slightly worrying that a cock up like this has been made so early.
The political situation between North and South Korea is sensitive to say least, and of all the flags to mix up these two have to be the worst, what next if an athlete from the Republic of Ireland wins gold are they going to show the union jack on a giant screen.
Of course the media are only going to be, as usual, interested in the negative stories that come out of the games, but they haven’t been short of column inches so far.
We’ve had the security mess up with G4S, buses with athletes on them getting lost, baggage handlers losing athletes equipment, trains and trams breaking down, traffic queues etc.
While all will probably be forgotten if the opening ceremony is a success, let’s hope all the mistakes and errors this week are just one-offs and that over the next two weeks the only thing we will be talking about are the sports on show, and not a series of bad mistakes.
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