BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344
23 March 2012 Last updated at 15:25 ET
Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait
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.
Sacha Baron Cohen The original Borat movie offended the Kazakh authorities
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.
Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the
tournament's organisers had also got the Serbian national anthem
wrong.
"Then Maria Dmitrienko's turn came," he said. "She got up on to the
pedestal and they played a completely different anthem, offensive to
Kazakhstan."
The spoof song praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports
and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.
The film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, released in 2006, follows Baron Cohen's
character, the journalist Borat Sagdiyev, as he travels to the US and
pursues the actress Pamela Anderson.
The film outraged people in Kazakhstan and was eventually banned in
the country. The government also threatened Baron Cohen with legal
action.
Reports say the film is also banned in Kuwait.
anthem gaffes:
Instead of singing "we love your mountains" in his attempt on the
Croatian anthem, an English opera singer sings "my penis is a
mountain"
Swiss TV runs obsolete "Deutschland uber alles" subtitles over the
German national anthem
Grenada plays Taiwan's anthem at a ceremony inaugurating a
China-funded stadium
Saudis play Syrian anthem for Lebanese football team
Belgian party leader Yves Leterme sings French anthem when asked
to sing the Belgian
--
Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac
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