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Bag with Paris 2024 Data Lost, Possibly Stolen, Prosecutor Says 

Workers set up a giant poster announcing the Olympic Games on the façade of the Solidarity and Health ministry in Paris, on February 27, 2024. (AFP)
Workers set up a giant poster announcing the Olympic Games on the façade of the Solidarity and Health ministry in Paris, on February 27, 2024. (AFP)
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Bag with Paris 2024 Data Lost, Possibly Stolen, Prosecutor Says 

Workers set up a giant poster announcing the Olympic Games on the façade of the Solidarity and Health ministry in Paris, on February 27, 2024. (AFP)
Workers set up a giant poster announcing the Olympic Games on the façade of the Solidarity and Health ministry in Paris, on February 27, 2024. (AFP)

A bag containing a computer and two memory sticks with data about the Paris 2024 Olympics has been lost by a City Hall engineer and may be stolen, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. 

An investigation into theft has been handed to transport police following the incident at the city's Gare du Nord railway station late on Feb. 26, the office said in a statement. 

"Although he was careful to point out that his bag contained a professional USB memory stick ... it is important to specify that this stick only contained notes relating to traffic in Paris during the Olympic Games, and not on sensitive security plans," the office said. 

Paris 2024 organizers declined to comment. 

The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26-Aug 11. 

Some 30,000 members of the police force are expected to be mobilized every day during the Olympics, with about 300,000 spectators expected to attend the opening ceremony along the River Seine. 

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South Korea Expresses Regret after Its Athletes Introduced as North Korea at Opening Ceremony

Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
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South Korea Expresses Regret after Its Athletes Introduced as North Korea at Opening Ceremony

Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)

South Korea expressed regret that its delegation of athletes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday was introduced as from rival North Korea and has demanded assurances from organizers the mistake will not happen again.

As the boat carrying South Korean athletes passed on the Seine, the announcer introduced them as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - the official name of North Korea - in French and English.

The announcer used the same introduction when the North Korean delegation passed.

South Korea's vice minister for sports and culture, Jang Mi-ran, who was in Paris, had requested a meeting with International Olympics Committee President Thomas Bach, the ministry said in a statement.

"We express regret that the country was introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games when the athletes of the Republic of Korea were entering," it said.

South Korea's National Olympic Committee immediately referred the incident to the Games' organizers and requested that the error will not be repeated.

South Korea's delegation includes 143 athletes competing in 21 events. North Korea, which is returning to the Games for the first time since Rio 2016, has sent 16 athletes.