TOKYO—The South Korean team has removed banners with a historic reference to a past conflict with Japan from their Olympic village accommodation balconies in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday.
The banners had been hung from the team’s balconies in the Olympic village, home to the 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries who will compete at the Games starting next week.
“I have been informed that the banners have been taken down by the South Korean Olympic Committee,” IOC President Thomas Bach told a news conference.
“This obviously happened on the request of the IOC because the guidelines are also saying very clearly that the Olympic village i…
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