2/11/2024 0 Comments Olympic games tokyo 2020 ukraine![]() ![]() “I also used this opportunity to express my apology to those who are in the Ukrainian team.” “Of course, people noticed that and the person in charge of announcements apologized,” Tanaka said through a translator. “The French language calling out (of medalists) should have said Team Ukraine, however it said ROC instead,” Tanaka said later in Japanese.Īnnouncements at Olympic venues are typically done in Japanese, English and French, which is the home language of the modern Olympic movement. The Ukrainian duo of Marta Fiedina and Anastasiya Savchuk took bronze but were announced on the podium as representing ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee. ![]() Russian athletes Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko won the artistic swimming duet competition on Wednesday. ![]() Conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists continue in the eastern Donbas region near the shared border between the countries. ![]()
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