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Illinois Nazi said:
Not as awkward as the 1896 Olympics when Australia won a gold and they put up the Austrian flag.

Or that one a few years ago where they played the Borat version of the Kazakhstan national anthem.
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Kazakhstan industry best in the world
We invented toffee and trouser belt
Kazakhstan's prostitutes cleanest in the region
Except of course Turkmenistan's

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place
From Plains of Tarashek to Northern fence of Jewtown
Come grasp the might penis of our leader
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
 
Illinois Nazi said:
Not as awkward as the 1896 Olympics when Australia won a gold and they put up the Austrian flag.

Or that one a few years ago where they played the Borat version of the Kazakhstan national anthem.
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When Zali Steggall won the slalom at the World Championships for alpine skiing, they played the Armenian national anthem.

When Alan Jones won his first F1 race, they didn't have a recording of the Australian national anthem, so somebody played Happy Birthday on a trumpet.
 
the fly said:
When Zali Steggall won the slalom at the World Championships for alpine skiing, they played the Armenian national anthem.

When Alan Jones won his first F1 race, they didn't have a recording of the Australian national anthem, so somebody played Happy Birthday on a trumpet.
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When Australia played the Franco era Spanish national anthem before a Davis Cup Final we all had a had a good chortle.
 

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wally funk said:
Happy Birthday?? Is there video of this? That's ******* fantastic!
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I have no idea if a video exists. I remember him talking about it during the coverage of an Austrian GP in the late 90s.
Gough said:
When Australia played the Franco era Spanish national anthem before a Davis Cup Final we all had a had a good chortle.
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I remember hearing about that, but I couldn't remember what the event was.
 
the fly said:
I have no idea if a video exists. I remember him talking about it during the coverage of an Austrian GP in the late 90s.

I remember hearing about that, but I couldn't remember what the event was.
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There is a video of his first win and in the end he is being interviewed and you can hear the trumpeter. He plays Star Spangled Banner but they dont have the official podium presentation

 
Illinois Nazi said:
Not as awkward as the 1896 Olympics when Australia won a gold and they put up the Austrian flag.

Or that one a few years ago where they played the Borat version of the Kazakhstan national anthem.
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Or when the Fed cup tennis tie between USA and Germany sung the Nazi verse of the German anthem.
 
WW1 Western Front.

Things that happened on 11/11/1918 - AFTER the Germans had signed the armistice documents at 05:00 am. The armistice was to come into effect at 11:00 am, but no truce or ceasefire was agreed to by Marshall Foch (Supreme Allied Commander).

07-08:00 am. General Wright, of the 89th American Division, seeing his troops were exhausted and dirty, and hearing there were bathing facilities available in the nearby town of Stenay, he decided to take the town so his men could refresh themselves.
That lunatic decision cost something like 300 casualties, many of them battle deaths.

10:45 am. Augustin Trebuchon, was taking a message to troops by the River Meuse saying that soup would be served at 11.30 after the peace, when he was killed. The last Frenchman to die (90 others in his company also died on this day). No French graves from WW1 have the date of death as 11/11/18 - supposedly all changed 10 10/11/18 as the French Army was embarrassed at sending men to die after the signing of the armistice agreement.

10:58 am. George Lawrence Price (Canadian) was the last Commonwealth soldier killed. No one is sure who the last Australian casualty was. There were at least15 Australian deaths on 11/11/18.

10.59 am. Henry Gunther was a member of the 157th Brigade of the 79th Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary force. Approaching a roadblock in the village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers, Gunther got up, against the orders of his close friend and now sergeant, Ernest Powell, and charged with his bayonet. The German soldiers, already aware of the Armistice that would take effect in one minute, tried to wave Gunther off. He kept going and fired "a shot or two". When he got too close to the machine guns, he was shot in a short burst of automatic fire and killed instantly. He was the last soldier on any side killed before the armistice. (It is thought that Gunther was upset about having been demoted from Sergeant a few weeks prior. Following his 'celebrity' death, he was posthumously re-instated to his former rank, and his name was honoured in the Army. God, people are stupid sometimes).

Because no truce or ceasefire was declared for the period leading up to the armistice, there was some concern that hostilities could restart at any time. A lot of these activities were about shoring up positions in case of that.
Estimates are about 11,000 casualties (inc 2,738 deaths) were recorded on the Western Front on the last day - more than on D-Day 26 years later. The last German casualty was probably shot while attempting to parlay with some US troops several minutes after 11:00.

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The grave on the end of the row closest to camera is that of John Parr - the first British soldier to die in the war. The grave on the end of the facing row is that of George Ellison - the last British Soldier to die. That's right - four years of fighting back and forth, and at the end of the war, the British were in exactly the same place they first started fighting.
 

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Gough said:
When it comes to pointless, it's hard to look past WWI.
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True, but some argue (including me) that it was an inevitable war that had to happen - whether Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated or not. That event in my view was merely a trigger for a perfect storm of causes to come together (militaristic build up by the big European players, nationalistic fervour especially within the Austrian-Hungarian empire, a complex alliance system which meant if one nation was attacked another nation or three would jump in automatically, and imperialistic desires by most European nations).
 
Forward Press said:
True, but some argue (including me) that it was an inevitable war that had to happen - whether Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated or not. That event in my view was merely a trigger for a perfect storm of causes to come together (militaristic build up by the big European players, nationalistic fervour especially within the Austrian-Hungarian empire, a complex alliance system which meant if one nation was attacked another nation or three would jump in automatically, and imperialistic desires by most European nations).
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which blows me away given how weak and fragmented the AH empire was
 

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