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South Korea’s sports ministry said in a statement it “regrets” the erroneous announcement.
The report said 2008 Olympic weightlifting champion Jang Mi-ran, the second vice minister of the Ministry of Sports, had requested a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach to discuss the matter.
The statement said that the Sports Ministry also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to “lodging a strong protest to the French side” over the matter.
South Korea’s Sports Ministry said the country’s National Olympic Committee plans to meet with the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee to express its protest, demanding measures to prevent such incidents from happening again, and send a formal letter of protest in the name of the head of the South Korean delegation.
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