Organizers at Tokyo Games apologize for country mix-up

Tokyo Olympics organizers have apologized for introducing Ukrainian athletes as Russians at an inventive swimming medal ceremony.

Tokyo spokesman Masa Tanaka says it was “purely an operational mistake” when he introduced the apology on the day by day Tokyo Video games information convention.

The creative swimming duet competitors was received late Wednesday by the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko.

The Ukrainian duo of Marta Fiedina and Anastasiya Savchuk took bronze however had been introduced on the podium as representing the ROC.