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25-07-2012, 11:50 PM
HAMPDEN bore witness to an historic event yesterday, no question. Not because, in playing host to women’s football, the stadium staged the first Olympic event held on Scottish soil (the yachting in 1908 doesn’t count). And not because of the major diplomatic incident that was caused ahead of the second game by the Hampden presentation organisers showing the South Korean flag on the big screen instead of the North Korean flag: a calamitous mistake which, for more than half an hour, led to the North Korean players refusing to take the field for their game against Colombia.
More... (http://www.scotsman.com/olympics-usa-4-2-france-poor-start-but-americans-show-why-they-are-the-champions-1-2432929)
More... (http://www.scotsman.com/olympics-usa-4-2-france-poor-start-but-americans-show-why-they-are-the-champions-1-2432929)