4mo ago

The "list of wrong anthem incidents" on Wikipedia is hilarious to browse through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrong_anthem_incidents

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1957 Ice Hockey World Championships, Moscow, USSR
Sweden unexpectedly won the tournament against the Soviet Union, and the host country did not have a recording of their national anthem ready to play. The players agreed to sing the anthem in place of a recording, but as they did not know the full lyrics, they instead sang the drinking song "Helan Går".
Pretty funnty
- Still can't stop laughing! Imagining the players to be in drunk state and giving salud to the flag... 🤣🤣🤣
Some more good ones:
- Oh no, some of those feel like the wrong thing was cue'd up for some reason. But accidentally playing a fake song from Borat is brutal.
  
  There's video of that one as well. The athlete holds it together well.
  Testing: Do Lemmy/Mbin support directly embedding videos?
  
  Oh no, some of those feel like the wrong thing was cue’d up for some reason
  The China/Chile ones make sense too.
- I just want to say thank you for starting with the actual link to the article in addition to fun screenshots. So many people get that wrong, but you did good.
  
  Thanks. I always try to do both, because I know most won't want to click off site and are happy to just chuckle at a screenshot, but a lot of people will always want the link.
- Commenting to say how again was Borat so wildly accepted but if it was the other way around it’s racism
  
  Wdym? Please explain.
  I live in a similar shitty post soviet country, the kazakh scenes were filmed in romania, and noone finds it offensive here, even Kazakhstan uses the slogan "very nice" nowadays.
- Honestly to avoid another Borat incident they should just make Livin' La Vida Loca the national anthem
- That Borat mix up was nothing more than a dick move though.
Malta: I'm tired of being what you want me to be
oof, i hope noone got hurt on that occasion
- So glad only a cricket was there to hear it.
- Your spoiler doesn't work on Jerboa. It needs a title.
Slovakian anthem for Slovenia was sure to be there.
- And vice versa!
1985, Melbourne, Australia uses West Germany's anthem for Australia
Come on guys
I wonder if it was deliberate, in support of the country
Then again in 2008 with a rock song instead of Advance Australia Fair in an internal footy match
yay! glad to see something about my tiny country on here.
Spain wins with more incidents than anyone!
Oh yeah, I remember the video of the malta one, it's pretty funny !
https://youtu.be/rVXMqw0uxd0
@ThePicardManeuver Nobody got mad at this one 😎
This town is coming like a ghost town
Can someone please play 三民主義 when introducing the PRC at the next olympics? 😏

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