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Agence France-Presse

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.
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.


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”.
The refusal came after rejecting all of the IOC‘s proposals over coronavirus safety protocols “until the very last minute including the provision of vaccines”, an IOC statement pointed out.
It said the North Koreans had received clear warnings about the consequences of carrying out their first boycott of a Summer Games since Seoul in 1988.
Bach said if a North Korean athlete qualifies for Beijing the IOC would take “an appropriate decision in due course”.
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With the suspension comes the permanent blocking of IOC support which had been withheld due to international sanctions.
And the impoverished isolated state which competed in the last Winter Games held across the Korean border in Pyeongchang in 2018 will miss out on any assistance from the IOC during the suspension.


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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’



The suspension will last until the end of 2022 and covers the coming Beijing Winter Olympics.


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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’

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’