[KS] RE: Olympic Partners?

[Kaliher, Kenneth L.]

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   According to news reports, IOC President Samaranch suggested the joint
entrance in letters to Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il before their June
summit.  The South promptly accepted; the North took a little longer.  In
Sydney, Samaranch personally oversaw five days of negotiations between the
two Koreas, and considered it a great accomplishment when they finally
reached agreement.  And this was merely to arrange a joint entrance.
Combining teams would have required months of negotiations over how to
select participants, coaches, line-ups, uniforms, flag and anthem, etc.,
etc.  It had only been accomplished for a couple of relatively minor
competitions in 1990 and 1991, and I doubt whether anyone seriously thought
it could be done for this Olympics.
   The North Koreans only had 30 athletes going to Sydney, and even after
including all their coaches and officials still had to fly in 20 more bodies
to fill out the agreed-upon number of 90 to enter from each side.  The South
Koreans, of course, had to exclude scores (hundreds?) of their athletes, not
to mention coaches and other officials, to keep their participants down to
90.

Ken Kaliher

		From:	togilsaram at gmx.net [mailto:togilsaram at gmx.net]
		Sent:	Sunday, September 24, 2000 3:10 PM
		To:	korean-studies at iic.edu
		Subject:	Re: Olympic Partners?

		...To get back to more Korean topics, I was quite surprised
by the fact that,
		although the All-Korea team entered the Olympics together at
the opening
		ceremony, they do not compete as one team (as the two
Germanies did until
		'68). Was that not at all on the agenda, or did they try,
but could not reach an
		agreement?
		--
		Regards,
		Falco-Ramin Javazi

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