PARIS — The Paris Olympics were affected by the global IT outage on Friday, with organisers temporarily unable to hand out accreditations to athletes and officials arriving for the Games.
Airlines, banks, TV channels and other business across the world have scrambled following one of the biggest computer crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus programme.'Like a lot of organisations, we suffered this global Microsoft outage,' chief organiser Tony Estanguet told reporters, a week before the opening ceremony of the Olympics .'All of our servers were affected this morning.
Elsewhere on Friday, the Japan Gymnastics Association announced 19-year-old Shoko Miyata, a world bronze medallist and captain of Japan's women's gymnastics team, was being sent home for smoking and drinking.Miyata was reportedly seen smoking in a private setting in Tokyo some time at the end of June or beginning of July and had allegedly drunk alcohol in a room at Japan's national training centre, JGA secretary general Kenji Nishimura told reporters.
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