The organizing committee immediately apologized for an incident where the wrong national name was called at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medal ceremony.
Masanori Takaya, spokesperson for the organizing committee of the tournament, said at a regular briefing on the 5th, "There was a case where the name of Ukraine's national name was wrongly called." tell," he said.
In the event, Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romansina of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) took gold medals, Huang Xuechen-Sun Yuenyan of China took silver, followed by Anastasia Sauchuk-Marta Fedin of Ukraine with bronze medals.
However, in the process of awarding the medals, foreign media such as TASS News reported that the announcer in the hall incorrectly called the affiliations of the Ukrainian athletes who received the bronze medals as 'Russian Olympic Committee'.
"It was a purely operational mistake," Takaya said.
It is said that it was a simple mistake, but it is interpreted that the organizing committee immediately evolved in consideration of the sensitive political and diplomatic relations between Russia and Ukraine.
Earlier, at the beginning of last month, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the organizing committee had a commotion over the marking of 'Crimea' on the map posted on the Tokyo Olympic website.
Initially, Crimea was portrayed as Russian territory by marking the borders, but this was modified after protests from Ukraine.
Crimea is a disputed territory claimed by Ukraine and Russia as their respective territories.
Even at the time, the IOC explained that it was a "service provider's mistake".
Russia, who was found to have manipulated doping samples, was banned from participating in major international sports competitions for two years last year.
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