North Koreans angered by flag blunder

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

HA HA...ya you go Brits!

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-womens-match-delayed-193347887.html

AFP – Wed, Jul 25, 2012

North Korea's women's football team refused to take the field for more than an hour Wednesday in protest at an embarrassing mix-up of their national flag on day one of the London Olympics.

The team were incensed after Hampden Park's giant screen showed images of North Korean players next to the South Korean flag before their opening match with Colombia.

The game missed its 7:45 pm (1845 GMT) start after North Korea failed to appear. After it finally kicked off at 8:50 pm, North Korea won 2-0 with a goal in each half.

"Yes, we were angry because our players were introduced as if they are from South Korea, something that may affect us very greatly as you might know," said North Korea coach Sin Ui-Gun.

"Winning the game cannot compensate this. It is a different matter. We hope there is no repeat in the next matches," he added.

Sin said North Korea would have abandoned the game if the problem was not resolved, and said he had even wondered if the wrong flag had not been used on purpose.

"If this matter was not solved, we thought going on was nonsense," he said.

Olympics organisers and FIFA apologised over the blunder, which came among a series of other howlers on the first day of competition of London 2012.

"Today ahead of the women's football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag," said a statement from the London organising committee.

"Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again."

Elsewhere on Wednesday, Team GB sent out an email referring to the Great Britain women's football team as "England".

And organisers offered a refund to diving fans whose view will be partially obscured due to a defect in Olympic Park's purpose-built, wave-shaped Aquatics Centre.

The North Korean error recalls a notorious incident in March, when organisers of a shooting competition in Kuwait played a spoof anthem from comedy film "Borat" instead of the Kazakh national verse.

In May, South Africa's hockey team were treated to a rendition of the country's apartheid-era anthem at their London Cup match against Britain.

Relations between the two Koreas, still officially at war and sharing the world's most heavily guarded border, have plunged in recent months over the communist North's nuclear programme.

The countries did not hold talks on reprising 2004's joint march at the Athens Olympics opening ceremony.

In Britain, North Korean officials have blocked South Korean media from covering their athletes' training sessions, according to the South's Yonhap news agency.

However, South Korea's weightlifters politely rearranged a training session this week after the North Korean team arrived at the same venue at the same time, in a scheduling mistake.

Edited July 27, 2012 by Bad_Daddy

[X Factor 1,112]

Poor babies - their feelings were hurt

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Poor babies - their feelings were hurt

According to the Brit politicians including the mayor of London, Romney was an idiot for asking them if they were prepared.

[mawilson 2,133]

Now all they need is to play Borat's made-up Kazakh national anthem for the Kazakh athletes.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Now all they need is to play Borat's made-up Kazakh national anthem for the Kazakh athletes.

That movie is still banned in Kazakhstan.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

According to the Brit politicians including the mayor of London, Romney was an idiot for asking them if they were prepared.

That's still true - Mitt being an idiot for fcuking up his international debut. I read that Poland is considering a quick move back behind the iron curtain hoping Mitt can't find them there.

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That's still true - Mitt being an idiot for fcuking up his international debut. I read that Poland is considering a quick move back behind the iron curtain hoping Mitt can't find them there.

wouldn't it be easier if they simply turned off the lights?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

That's still true - Mitt being an idiot for fcuking up his international debut. I read that Poland is considering a quick move back behind the iron curtain hoping Mitt can't find them there.

Did the Brits screw up? Well read the OP if you have any doubts. Not that Romney didn't have any experience with the Olympics in Salt Lake City. Looks like it's the Brits who have mud on their face now and not Romney.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Did the Brits screw up?

So Mitt was wrong again seeing that he now says that London is ready. If that man could make up his mind just once.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

So Mitt was wrong again seeing that he now says that London is ready. If that man could make up his mind just once.

Mitt asked if they were ready for the Olympics. There's only been two other threads on it but I guessed you missed those.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

The flag incident happened in Glasgow, not London.

No one has asked him his opinion on Glasgow's readiness

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

The flag incident happened in Glasgow, not London.

No one has asked him his opinion on Glasgow's readiness

So much for fans who payed for tickets to see the divers at the new aquatic center. They may have gotten a refund but they got screwed out of watching the event.

Edited July 27, 2012 by Bad_Daddy

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Mitt asked if they were ready for the Olympics. There's only been two other threads on it but I guessed you missed those.

He's walked these comments back now expressing confidence that London is ready. And it seems he's got it wrong again.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I can see looking for the slightest miscue in the London Olympics will replace Bad Daddy's California threads in P&R for the next 17 days.

It doesn't change the fact that MR upset the Conservative Prime Minister, Conservative Mayor of London, right-wing newspapers like the Telegraph and Daily Mail and the entire Murdoch press. I mean, that's an achievement that even Obama could admire.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I can see looking for the slightest miscue in the London Olympics will replace Bad Daddy's California threads in P&R for the next 17 days.

It doesn't change the fact that MR upset the Conservative Prime Minister, Conservative Mayor of London, right-wing newspapers like the Telegraph and Daily Mail and the entire Murdoch press. I mean, that's an achievement that even Obama could admire.

It's all because the trees in the UK don't

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