Kazakhstan's shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.
The team asked for an apology and the medal ceremony was later rerun.
The team's coach told Kazakh media the organisers had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake.
The song was produced by UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the film, which shows Kazakhs as backward and bigoted.
Footage of Thursday's original ceremony posted on YouTube shows gold medallist Maria Dmitrienko listening to the anthem without emotion and finally smiling as it ends.
And let us pray that come it may
(As come it will for a' that)
Just saw that yesterday. And now I have the image of some Kuwaiti producer in a studio with a shit-eating grin and holding two thumbs up going, "Niiiice."
edited 23rd Mar '12 7:50:46 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Fail!
Kazakhstan's shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.
The team asked for an apology and the medal ceremony was later rerun.
The team's coach told Kazakh media the organisers had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake.
The song was produced by UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the film, which shows Kazakhs as backward and bigoted.
Footage of Thursday's original ceremony posted on YouTube
shows gold medallist Maria Dmitrienko listening to the anthem without emotion and finally smiling as it ends.
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)