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Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem

Posted by samzenpus on from the Kazakhstan-you-very-nice-place dept.

Wo-wo-wee-wah! It looks like the Kuwaiti officials at an international shooting event never got the memo that the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan wasn't an actual documentary. Gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko stood stoically while the offensive national anthem from the film was played during the awards ceremony. From the article: "Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the tournament's organizers had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong." Nice!

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Interesting

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  2. Re:Double irony award? by mfarah · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In any case surely there are official channels to request flags and anthems and other national symbols from...

    YEARS ago, Chile hosted the World Chess Championship. Players from Romania were *very* upset because the flag representing them still had the socialist coat of arms on it (the 1989 revolution had happened less than a year before). They threatened to leave unless steps were taken immediately to correct this... I guess it was solved to their satisfaction, because they didn't leave, though.

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  3. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Alomex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    President Bush (the Elder) apologized for it, and when some Americans expressed displeasure for him having apologized he said:

    All I'm saying is that if that had happened in Canada and we had seen the United States flag flown upside-down, every American would have been very, very upset.