International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has commented on the DPRK-South Korean unified women's ice hockey team. He says the move is not just political window-dressing. The DPRK agreed with South Korea to send 22 athletes and a 230-strong cheering squad to the Winter Olympics. Twelve of those athletes will compete on the team. The two nations will also be marching together at the opening ceremony, for the first time at the Games since the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

THOMAS BACH INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT "With the unified ice hockey team where at the beginning there were great concerns, then the athletes from DPRK two or three days afterwards they were celebrating together the birthday, one of these players, then they say the team is coming together and there I really believe in the Olympic spirit and it will be these athletes finally and many, many million other people, they will believe in this gesture and the athletes are going to show it."