Reuters: Sports News: Announcer narrowly avoids Korean gaffe

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Announcer narrowly avoids Korean gaffe Aug 1st 2012, 16:18 LONDON | Wed Aug 1, 2012 12:18pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - A diplomatic gaffe was narrowly avoided at the Olympic men's individual all-round gymnastics final on Wednesday as a long pause preceded the loud-speaker introduction of South Korea's Kim Soo-myun with the announcer seeming to check which Korea the gymnast was from. Kim, standing in front of the vault and waiting to wave to the audience when his name was announced, appeared amused as the audience collectively held their breath in what was an otherwise flowing list of introductions by the compere. After the dramatic pause, the announcer correctly introduced Kim to loud applause. Olympic organizers are desperate to avoid another embarrassing blunder after an incident early in the women's soccer tournament when the North Korean team walked off the pitch after the flag of long-term rival South Korea was mistakenly displayed on stadium screens. North and South Korea are divided by the world's most militarized border and remain technically at war after an armistice stopped the Korean conflict in 1953.

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