Tokyo 2020 organisers have apologised after mistakenly announcing Ukraine’s artistic swimming bronze medallists were competing for the Russian Olympic Committee
Olympic organisers have apologised after a Ukrainian duo in artistic swimming were mistakenly announced as competing for the Russian Olympic Committee at a medal ceremony.Russian athletes Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko won the artistic swimming duet competition on Wednesday. The Ukrainian duo of Marta Fiedina and Anastasiya Savchuk took bronze but were announced on the podium as representing ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee.
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