South, North Korea To Discuss Joint Artistic Gymnastics Team

South Korean Yeo Seo-jeong competed in artistic gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games.GETTY IMAGES

The Korea Gymnastics Association said that artistic gymnastics officials from South Korea and North Korea plan to meet at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships "to discuss fielding a joint team" at Tokyo 2020, according to YONHAP. The 48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships will be held in Doha from Oct. 25-Nov. 3. The KGA originally planned to invite North Koreans to its 3rd Korea Cup int'l gymnastics competition and "talk in detail about the joint gymnastics team at the Olympics." But since the competition was scheduled a week after the worlds, top-class gymnasts and North Koreans were reportedly "reluctant to participate," and the KGA recently decided to postpone the competition until next year (YONHAP, 9/27).