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IOC suspends North Korea Olympic Committee for Tokyo Games no-show
- The suspension will last until the end of 2022 and covers the coming Beijing Winter Olympics
- IOC chief Thomas Bach says that if a North Korean athlete qualifies for Beijing, the committee would take ‘an appropriate decision in due course’
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The IOC is punishing North Korea’s Tokyo Games no-show by suspending its National Olympic Committee until the end of 2022, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announced on Wednesday.
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The suspension covers the coming Beijing Winter Olympics.
“The NOC of the People’s Republic of Korea was the only NOC not participating in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The IOC executive board decided to suspend the NOC until the end of 2022, as a result of this unilateral decision,” Bach told a press conference.
North Korea was the only one of over 200 NOCs not to participate in the delayed 2020 Games in Japan.
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North Korea suspended from Beijing Winter Olympics after Tokyo Games no-show
North Korea suspended from Beijing Winter Olympics after Tokyo Games no-show
As a result, it violated one of the Olympic Charter‘s main tenets that “each NOC is obliged to participate in the Games of the Olympiad by sending athletes”.
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