[cherubmattd]

Was in the ExCel earlier, watched some of the powerlifting finals (despite being told nobody with a day pass could get in where I was, I just walked in anyway to banks and banks of seats).

Anyway, at the victory ceremony, where China had won (Nigeria 2nd, Russia 3rd), they started playing a national anthem and the Chinese guy looked confused, before they turned the volume down on that one and played the proper Chinese anthem.

A pretty monumental **** up which I thought people should know about.

[wolvesdavid]

Mistakes happen.

[Aphrodite7]

They played the Chilean one instead- must be the next one on the list!

[Meepers]

Originally Posted by cherubmattd

A pretty monumental **** up which I thought people should know about.

Why exactly? Mistakes happen.

[The Net]

They showed the incident in the Last Leg programme last night and everybody made pretty light of it.

[indiana44]

Pretty embarrassing but understandable, some mistakes like that will just happen in an event of such magnitude. Just looks like a slight finger error on a playlist. Don't know how much they have a select and confirm or double check by anyone else, which should have caught it.

Nothing like as bad as during the Olympics ( well on the first day of the football before the official start ! ) when the South Korean flag came up on the big screen at Hampden, detailing the North Korean football team. Even worse that it was apparently a prepackaged item sent up from London. Checks and balances ? The North Korean team disappeared back up the tunnel, not to be seen for another hour, until grovelling apologies were quite rightly made.

[jenzie]

flag-gate all over again

[grassmarket]

Originally Posted by Aphrodite7

They played the Chilean one instead- must be the next one on the list!

Exactly the same mistake happened at a World Indoor Athletics champs a couple of years ago.