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IOC bars South Korean footballer from attending medal ceremony for making political statement |
The International Olympic Committee asked South
Korea to bar one of its footballers from attending the bronze medal ceremony after
he waved a political message after his team beat Japan . The slogan was said to
refer to a long-running dispute about islands that both South Korea and Japan
claim, the BBC reports. According to the report, the sign reportedly read: "Dokdo
is our land", which the S. Korean footballer took from a fan after the match,
stressing that the incident was not pre-planned. South Korea won the Olympic football
bronze medal by beating Japan 2-0, the report added. The IOC said that after the
game, the player was photographed waving the sign allegedly asserting South Korea
’s sovereignty over the islands. The committee urged the South Korean Olympic
committee to take ‘swift action on this issue’ and said the player should not
be present at the medal ceremony, which took place on Saturday. A Korean Football
Association official later named the footballer as Park Jong-woo, 23, who was
not present at the ceremony. "Park was running around with the banner which he
got from the crowd. We saw the message on the banner so we quickly took it from
him," the unnamed official said. Football’s governing body, FIFA, said it had
opened a separate investigation to discipline him. The statutes of both the IOC
and Fifa prohibit political statements by athletes and players. |
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