translated from Spanish: North Korea announced it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics

North Korea announced that it will not participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to protect its athletes from the difficult health situation arising from the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Kim Jong-un’s government’s decision is based on the need to “preserve the public health of athletes,” according to DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Sports, a state communications body specializing in sports affairs. In this way, the Asian country became the first to unsubscribe from the mega sporting event that was postponed for this year. Moreover, Russia will also not be involved in the doping scandal it starred in in 2018.

It will be the first time since 1988 that North Korea will not be at an Olympic Games by its own decision: at that time, it boycotted the event in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and four years earlier it was not part of Los Angeles 1984.This resolution took weeks after the International Olympic Committee (IIC), together with the organizers of Tokyo 2020 , shall determine to prohibit the entry of the foreign public to the sporting event, which will take place between 23 July and 8 August. To ensure the normal development of the competition, it is attempted to “limit contacts, greetings by hand and keep distance of one meter, if two meters are not possible”, detailed Hidemasa Nakamura, one of those responsible for the organization. In addition, common spaces will be ventilated every half hour.
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