For make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan! The organisers of an international swimming event in Kuwait last week mistakenly played a Borat parody song instead of the Kazakhstan national anthem when it presented a gold medal to Maria Dmitrienko, who was forced to listen to lyrics about the cleanliness of prostitutes.
Kuwait’s Borat parody bungle
For make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan! The organisers of an international swimming event in Kuwait last week mistakenly played a Borat parody song instead of the Kazakhstan national anthem when it presented a gold medal to Maria Dmitrienko, who was forced to listen to lyrics about the cleanliness of prostitutes.
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very classy
err, guys, I think you will find this is a shooting event not a swimming event. The clue is the drawings of rifles behind the dias, and the fact that the medal winners, are countries not known for their love of water, regardless still funny
Beat me to it Garry. I was going to suggest that maybe the officials should have given her a gold medal for swimming, just to make the event totally surreal.