Kazakhstan’s national shooting team asked for an apology after a fictitious national anthem from the film Borat was played during a medal ceremony in Kuwait instead of the real one.
The medal ceremony was later re-done.
According to the Kazakh shooting team’s coach, Anvar Yunusmetov, the event organizers claimed they accidentally downloaded the parodied version from the Internet by mistake. They also got the Serbian national anthem wrong.
“Then Maria Dmitrienko’s turn came,” said Yunsmetov, referring to his athlete. “She got up on to the pedestal and they played a completely different anthem, offensive to Kazakhstan.”
The 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, stars Sacha Baron Cohen’s character, journalist Borat Sagdiyev, as he travels to the United States.
The film outraged people in Kazakhstan and was eventually banned in the country.