Daily Current Affairs / IOC suspends North Korea from Beijing Olympics
Category : Sports Published on: September 15 2021
· North Korea has been formally suspended from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a punishment for refusing to send a team to the Tokyo Games, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
· IOC President Thomas Bach said North Korea's national Olympic body would also forfeit money owed from the previous Olympics.
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About IOC.
v Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
v President: Thomas Bach
v Founded: 23 June 1894 (Paris, France)