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Winning a sporting event while representing your country is supposed to be a moment of pride—standing atop the medal podium, hearing your national anthem, feeling all your hard work pay off. Not for this Kazakhstan athlete in Kuwait. Kuwait accidentally blared Borat’s obscene parody anthem thinking it was Kazakhstan’s real anthem.
Yes, the Kazakhstan anthem from Borat. The same one that includes lyrics which extoll Kazakhstan’s prostitutes as the cleanest in the region, calls Israel Jewtown, discusses testes and is prideful of an 80 per cent effective waste filtration system. That song. From the movie that completely embarrassed Kazakhstan.
How could this happen? Did the audio guy download the Borat Kazakhstan anthem MP3 from a dark area of the Internet? Did he scour YouTube once he realised Kazakhstan was going to win? How does this system usually work? There isn’t an Olympics approved database of national anthems? Is it possible to ever hear Team America‘s “America Fuck Yeah” play at an event?
No matter what, it’s amazing that the Kazakhstan athlete handled the situation so well. She should get a gold medal for being a very nice and calm human being. [The Daily What]
God I hope Kazakhstan wins nothing at the London Olympics.
Watching Boris Johnson attempting to explain and apologise for this mistake live on TV would be the funniest thing in human history. Please let it happen.
Well at least she saw the funny side of it…
I’m off to Kazakhstan in a week and a half, and I have yet to have seen Borat.
The fact they changed their national anthem in 2006 also confuses things, as there are two versions knocking about anyhow.
Did they remove the part about the prostitutes?
I wanted to cry for her, omg…
They also got the Serbian anthem wrong, but this Kazakhstan blunder was offensive as everyone knows Uzbekistan has the cleanest prostitutes in the region and the winning girl on the podium was from Uzbekistan.
But in all seriousness Kazakhstan has made a bad blunder on home turf: “Kazakhstan experienced a similar gaffe on its own soil back in March. Organizers of a domestic skiing festival played Ricky Martin’s Livin’ la Vida Loca instead of the Kazakh national anthem.”
Maybe we should have a new anthem for the Olympics, as I’m not sure if I want God to save the Queen, if he’s got time to spare then why not, but I wouldn’t want him to go out of his way or anything. I am making a call to change it to Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping, it just seems so fitting, except for the ‘Oh, Danny Boy’ bit.