On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:13:15 +0000, Phil Cook
wrote:

On 12/03/2014 17:36, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 12/03/2014 17:09, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

It's like the Olympics - they have to prepare every single competiting
country's national anthem just in case an obscure country wins a gold medal
and it has to be played immediately - which happens more often than you'd
think.


Not unknown to play the wrong anthem at such times.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/9165841/Kuwaitis-mistakenly-play-Borats-Kazakh-national-anthem-at-medals-ceremony.html

Or

http://tinyurl.com/7mptpl9

Another variation on the theme was a rugby or football international a
few years back when either Scotland or Wales were playing Ireland. The
band struck up with Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldiers Song and the
commentator parachuted in from London promptly announced it as the
other team's anthem and didn't seem to realise his mistake until the
second anthem was played.