Holy crap ... it's hard to believe this really happened ...

Kazakh gold medallist is played Borat anthem 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.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344







You'd think these things would be done more carefully -- you know, to avoid embarassing international incidents and all.