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When the Kazakh shooting team won gold in an event in Kuwait, the band played the theme from Borat at the medal ceremony by mistake

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When Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2005 he joked that he did not get a medal at this ceremony either (A jab at the ending of A New hope)

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1. After the US defeated favored France for the rugby gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics, French fans invaded the field. Police and French players defended the Americans from the crowd. Boos and hisses interrupted the US national anthem at the medal ceremony.

2. In 2012, after they won a shooting competition in Kuwait, the Kazakhstan team were subjected to the anthem from Borat, rather than their own national anthem at the medals ceremony.

3. The United States are the reigning Olympic champion in Rugby, having won gold against France at the 1924 Summer Olympics. At the final whistle the pitch was invaded by the French fans. The medal ceremony took place with police protection. From then on Rugby has been excluded from the Olympics.

4. The Kazakhstan national anthem parody used for the movie Borat was accidentally used at an actual medal ceremony for Kazakhstan

5. Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca from Star Wars) joked that when he became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2005, he did not get a medal at the ceremony either - a reference to the Star Wars scene in which Luke Skywalker and Han Solo get medals but Chewbacca does not.

6. Kazakhstan parody national anthem from the comedy film Borat, which acclaims Kazakhstan for its high-quality potassium exports and having the second cleanest prostitutes in the region, was mistakenly played at the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix medal ceremony.

7. Kuwait once played the Borat Kazakh anthem at a medal ceremony.

8. Athletes who win silver medals are less happy than both bronze and gold medal winners. Immediately after completing their match, they display sadness (43%), contempt (14%) and nothing(29%). Subjective raters also rated bronze medalists as happier both after the match, and at the ceremony.

9. The National Anthem of Russia got its lyrics in 2000 partly because there was an initiative from Russian athletes in the Olympics. This was due to the fact that the original anthem had no official lyrics and hence they couldn't sing in the medal ceremonies.

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In Australia, when wearing military medals at an ANZAC Day ceremony, if they are your own they should be worn on the left side of the chest, and if they are someone else's (such as those belonging to a relative) they should be worn on the right

The White Man in That Photo from the 1968 Mexico Olympics was Peter Norman, an Australian, who suffered reprisals when he supported John Carlos and Tommie Smith when they made their famous raised-fist gesture at the medal ceremony. - source

In the 2012 Kuwait athletics event, The technicians accidentally played the Borat version of the Kazakh national anthem during the medal ceremony of the Kazakhstan winner. - source

Medal of Honor recipient SSG Ryan Pitts broke the gavel during the NYSE Closing Bell ceremony.

In 1939 Agnes Fay Morgan researched the effects of B vitamins in a fox's diet. After the experiments, a fur stole was made out of fur from the test subjects. Morgan wore the stole at her presentation of the study data and again 10 years later at her Garvan Medal award ceremony. - source

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At a championship medal ceremony, Kazakhstan's shooting team found the Borat Parody national anthem which acclaims Kazakhstan for its high-quality potassium exports and having the second cleanest prostitutes in the region playing instead of the real one.

The youngest olympian ever was an unknown 7 year old boy who won goldl but got bored waiting for his medal and just wandered off before the ceremony.