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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This almost as bad as that international competition where when the Kazakh person won gold in their event, the organizers played the national anthem from Borat instead of the real national anthem of Kazakhstan…

They were pissed…

https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-borat-kazakhstan-anthem-by-mistake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This didn’t even make the US broadcast. NBC skipped a lot of countries from the Parade of Nations. As a country of immigrants, you’d think they’d show them all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's why I find BBC streams wherever possible. The American broadcast anchors talk too damn much, and always show more fluff garbage than the actual events.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s all American tv

We get American Ninja Warrior in my country and it’s an hour of fluff with 5 minutes of the actual programme sprinkled in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They introduced them as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", which is the official name for North Korea. South Korea's official name is just "Republic of Korea". I can totally see many people who are used to calling them "North" or "South Korea" mixing those up.