Wrong flag accompanies North Korean names; delays match

Day one of competition brought some controversy when the North Korean women's soccer team refused to come out of their locker room for more than an hour before their match in Glasgow Wednesday.

Apparently someone on the stadium staff attached a graphic of the South Korean flag to the North Korean team's player photos during introductions prior to their game against Colombia.
 “We’re sorry for the delay. We have problems backstage,” was the announcement from the stadium staff as the stall wore on. The match was supposed to begin at 7:45 p.m. local time, but didn't begin until 8:50 p.m. Organizers apologized for the mistake. North Korea won the match 2-0 and will play France at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday in Glasgow. Twenty years ago a similar controversy arose when track cyclist Erika Salumäe sprinted to gold in 1988 under the Soviet flag and won again as an Estonian in 1992. It was the first Olympic medal won for a country that had broken from the Union, but during the medal ceremony her flag was displayed upside down. Salumäe was bothered "a little bit," but ultimately unfazed.

"It did not matter," she told the London Independent at the time. "It was just unbelievable that I had the gold."

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