At its best, sport can promote international harmony, but that was not the case at the Stade de France where the hosts played the Andorran anthem ...
PARIS: At its best, sport can promote international harmony, but that was not the case at the Stade de France where the hosts played the Andorran anthem for the Albanian team.
Yet with surprising frequency, teams solemnly lined up for anthems register surprise or outrage when they find"they aren't playing our tune." Sometimes the errors are understandable. Slovenia's anthem played after a Slovakian victory at the ice hockey world championships. Other incidents have struck a political nerve.The often-changed Russian anthem has caused frequent problems. Russia adopted Mikhail Glinka's"Patriotic Song" in 1991. Nine year's later, after the election of Vladimir Putin, Russia reverted to a modified version of the old Soviet anthem, retitled"State Anthem of the Russian Federation".
Three years later, after the USA beat Russia in the quarterfinals of the under-18 men's ice hockey world championship in Chelyabinsk in Russia, they lined up to hear an unrecognisable and curtailed version of a tune that might have been the Star Spangled Banner. They responded by singing themselves.The hosts hired a famed local jazz trumpeter, James Morrison to play the anthems.
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