Olympic medalists from North Korea, South Korea and China posed for a selfie following the desk tennis combined doubles medal’s ceremony.
China’s Solar Yingsha and Wang Chuqin beat North Korea’s Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong within the ultimate to win gold, as South Korea received bronze with pair Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin defeating Hong Kong.
South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon took the picture of all of the medalists collectively through which they had been all smiling broadly. The image was taken with a South Korean-made Samsung telephone.
“I congratulated them once they had been launched as silver medalists,” Lim stated after the picture, in quotes carried by Korean media.
South Korea and North Korea each declare to be the only reputable authorities of all of Korea — which has been partitioned since September 1945 — with army tensions between the 2 states and a closely fortified border.
Previous to this Olympics, all particular person objects together with cellphones had been banned from medal ceremonies, with photographs solely being allowed to be taken by official media.
All six combined double medal winners posed for the selfie (Jean Catuffe/Getty Pictures)
Nonetheless, an settlement between Samsung and the IOC permits their merchandise for use in ceremonies. “Athletes can take inventive selfies with the Galaxy Z Flip6 in numerous angles on account of its foldable nature,” Samsung stated in a press launch this week.
The Athlete 365 app is preloaded on Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip6, which was given to competing athletes previous to its official launch earlier this month, into which the “victory selfies” of opponents might be added.
The shared picture comes simply days after 143 South Korean athletes had been incorrectly launched as North Korean in the course of the Olympics opening ceremony.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) was pressured to challenge a “deep apology” for the incident which noticed the South Korean delegation introduced because the “Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea,” the complete official identify of North Korea, as their boat handed down the Seine. The formal identify of South Korea is the Republic of Korea.
North Korea, which has 16 athletes as a part of its first delegation since 2016 (it was not represented on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as a result of Covid-19 pandemic), was correctly launched later in this system in French and English.
(Prime picture: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Pictures)
