A diplomatic incident when the North Korea Olympic women's football team walked off the field after the South Korea flag had been displayed was a "simple human mistake", International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said on Thursday.
The match between North Korea and Colombia at Glasgow's Hampden Park on Wednesday was delayed by a hour.
"There was no political connotation," Rogge told the IOC's final session before Friday's London [ Images ] Olympics [ Images ] opening ceremony,
"The organising committee has taken corrective action and there will be no repeat. It was a simple human mistake."
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