(ATR) Nearly two dozen athletes in five sports from North Korea will join with South Korea to compete as one team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
An agreement to field the first-ever unified team from the divided peninsula was signed Saturday at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
The agreement calls for 22 athletes from North Korea to march with their South Korean counterparts in the opening ceremony Feb. 9. The combined team will be called Korea, using a flag that depicts a unified nation.
It will be the first time the two nations have formed a unified team, although they have marched together in prior Olympic opening ceremonies.
Government officials from North and South, as well as leaders of the two NOCs, met with IOC President Thomas Bach for five hours at IOC headquarters to come to terms on the arrangements for a unified team that are under IOC purview.
Also participating were Gunilla Lindberg, IOC member and chair of the IOC Coordination COmmission for PyeongChang and Gian Franco Kasper, IOC member and head of the Association of International
Olympic Winter
Federations.
More to come from ATR's Kevin Nutley in Lausanne.
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