Olympics delayed by flag farce

Qwerty

Qwerty

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Not sure whether to laugh or cry about this one, kick off in the Columbia v North Korea Olympic Women's match at Hampden was delayed by over an hour because the South Korean flag was displayed on the big screen next to players by mistake.

The offending image which I have stolen from @jamescrossan on Twitter, is here

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Pretty big mistake given the craziness of North Korean fervour.
 
It's pretty shoddy that they put up the wrong flag though.

Have you ever watched the documentary, talking of DPRK, about James Dresnok the GI who defected there? Amazing story.

[video=youtube;qHAMAwIWciA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHAMAwIWciA&feature=related[/video]
 
Columbia is in America, Colombia is a country. Similar incident happened when an woman won a gold for Kazakhstan a couple of months ago, and they played the anthem from Borat. The poor woman was crying her eyes out
 
with the amount of spectators- they could have played it in the local park. It must be a nightmare picking up a player against Korea-
 
We´ve been planning the Olympics for years and we make a cock up like that. Oh dear. Well, it was at Hampden park so we can just blame the Scots.
 
I can remember when British commentators would chuckle contemptuously over incidents like this, when presenting from overseas, because in Britain, we would never, ever get something blatantly wrong as that. Well, welcome to the world of handing over responsibility for an easy job because the computer never makes mistakes.

Computer says No...North Korea..!

PS. Bendit, We may joke, but PM is correct. You need to edit your comment.
 
TheSecondStain said:
I can remember when British commentators would chuckle contemptuously over incidents like this, when presenting from overseas, because in Britain, we would never, ever get something blatantly wrong as that. Well, welcome to the world of handing over responsibility for an easy job because the computer never makes mistakes.

Computer says No...North Korea..!

PS. Bendit, We may joke, but PM is correct. You need to edit your comment.
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Nah, it's not that bad.
 
AlanSFC said:
We´ve been planning the Olympics for years and we make a cock up like that. Oh dear. Well, it was at Hampden park so we can just blame the Scots.
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..... yes, it was probably that useless Andy Murray`s fault!. I would suspect that that footage was prepared somewhere outside Scotland, and by someone not Scottish.
 
Also turns out that the first press release from LOCOG had to be recalled because it referred to South and North Korea instead of their correct titles. Double whoops!
 
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