Olympic Games 2012: Biggest sporting embarrassments

The organisation responsible for staging the London 2012 Olympics says it believes North Korea has accepted its apology for an embarrassing flag mix-up at their opening match against Colombia.

The faces of the North Korean players were displayed alongside the South Korean flag on a big screen at the women's football match at Hampden Park, Glasgow.

The game was delayed for an hour.

The North Korea team returned to the field after the error was corrected and won the game 2-0.

Here are some of the other biggest Olympic embarrassments.

Winter Games wipe-out

Australia's Steven Bradbury won the 1,000 metre short-track speedskating race at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002.

He got the gold after Chinese skater Li Jiajun fell and took out everyone in the race except for Bradbury.

The Australian simply had to skate around a pile of bodies to collect his country's first ever Winter Olympic gold.

He beat hot favourite Apolo Anton Ohno of the USA in the process.

Bradbury's face was put on a postage stamp in Australia after the Games.

Jump for joy

At the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in 2006 American Lindsey Jacobellis (right) led Switzerland's Tanja Frieden until the final jump in the first ever snowboard-cross final.

She decided to liven it up with a spectacular trick but she fell on landing just 100 metres from the finish line.

That left Frieden in to grab the gold medal.

Then 24, Jacobellis was the two-time snowboard cross world champion at the time and had been favourite to win.

Boxing blunder

At the Seoul Olympics in 1988, America's 19-year-old Roy Jones Jr. looked a certain winner against South Korea's Park Si-Hun.

He landed 86 punches to his opponent's 32.

The Korean took two standing eight counts and was twice warned by the referee.

Park, however, was awarded the light middleweight gold.

The judges - from Uganda, Uruguay and Morocco - were later suspended for six months but cleared by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

A new electronic scoring system was introduced after an International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigation.

The American boxer, who won his first 34 bouts as a professional, never received the gold medal.

Other contenders

At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, South African lightweight boxer Thomas Hamilton-Brown lost a first-round split decision.

Thinking that he had lost, he decided to eat his depression away.

Meanwhile, one of the judges changed his score meaning Brown was declared the winner.

He was disqualified from his next fight after failing to make the weight.

Another embarrassing Olympic moment featured a man who was due to become the first person from Suriname to take part in an Olympics.

But Wim Esajas missed his 800-metre heat in the morning after organisers told him his race was in the afternoon at the 1960 Games in Rome.