BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 7 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : COUNTRIES SPLIT, BOXERS UNITED

Those waiting for some sort of incident at a so-far very quiet Olympic boxing tournament inched a bit toward the edge of their seats Thursday evening when lightweights Hong Sung Sik and Yun Yong Chol entered the ring.

It was a South Korea (Hong)-North Korea (Yun) confrontation, surely a provocative matchup--or so many thought.

But after Hong won a routine decision, 11-2, both boxers embraced warmly, then walked to each other’s corner and congratulated each other’s coaches on a good match.

How times change.

At last Monday’s session, about a dozen South Koreans cheered and waved South Korean flags during one bout.

And for whom were they rooting?

For a North Korean fighter, who was boxing an Egyptian.

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant, all Times-Mirror newspapers.