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i don't know...what's your opinion about this?? i think it's a huge international mistake not to know the right position of the flag when you have to expose it somewhere...but can people be so mean and..i don't know...do this deliberately?

from novinite.com



Mon 27 March 2006 18:20


Bittersweet Victory

Barometer
By Petya Sabinova

A couple of days ago Bulgarians saw a heartwarming picture - two of our own were awarded the world gold in ice-skating , an almost unimaginable high, especially with titans like Russia in the race. After the blatant mockery of the Olympics, many were afraid to believe that skaters from our little nation could really be evaluated for what they're actually worth. This is why the sight of Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski on top of the ladder warmed many a heart at first. But something was wrong with the picture. Someone added a dash of sourness to the warm fuzzies - our flag was hanging upside down.
Bulgarians only raise the flag upside down in one occasion - war. The blood red then prevails over the placid white - and we know that these are grave times. Organizers in Canada might have just seen this as a tiny bureaucratic mistake, bit it sent a bitter pang to the thousands of Bulgarians before the T.V. screen, and what's worse - to the two up there on the ladder. For a country that is about to host Olympic Games, Canada should know better than to show such disrespect to the gold winners, especially when it comes to something so easy to double-check..That only comes to show that some people just fail to admit someone from a "godforsaken Balkan country" could be better than them. I wonder what would have happened if the upside down flag was that of the country third in the ranking - the US. Most likely official notes of apology would be flying to the athletes, their parents, their mayor, governor, and president even before the flags were all raised all the way.

maybe it would have been a good idea to start with some other article...but..

Dear Alexandra, I understand you very well! Sometimes it happens with the portuguese flag too! Please don't be upset!! I belong to a small country too. Some people think we are an autonomous region of Spain!!

I know you are right! Perhaps they should have apoligized

Bea wrote:

Dear Alexandra, I understand you very well! Sometimes it happens with the portuguese flag too! Please don't be upset!! I belong to a small country too. Some people think we are an autonomous region of Spain!!

I know you are right! Perhaps they should have apoligized

Autonomous region of Spain, ooh my God, there are people who think it really!! Hmmm. I'm shocked, it's true that Portugal is a small country, but it's famous, it's very beautiful (like Bulgaria ). Maybe the canadians must apologize, really. Fortunately, there was not a problem with our national anthem, because a few years ago on a competition of wrestling, I don't remember in which country, there was a mistake and we heard first some other song instead of the bulgarian anthem, hihi
Bye and BEIJOS!

alexandra wrote:

i don't know...what's your opinion about this?? i think it's a huge international mistake not to know the right position of the flag when you have to expose it somewhere...but can people be so mean and..i don't know...do this deliberately?

hmm... Alexandra, I don't agree that this was done deliberately. It is a huge mistake, of course... I really don't understand why they couldn't take 5 seconds of time to make sure that they were hanging the flag right.

i know...i don't belive that this was on puropose, either. but after i read the article and seemed to be official (written by a journalist or smth) i was having second thought abt this...what if?

hopefully not..
still they could have double - checked this

alexandra wrote:

i know...i don't belive that this was on puropose, either. but after i read the article and seemed to be official (written by a journalist or smth) i was having second thought abt this...what if?

hopefully not..
still they could have double - checked this

:| I got the impression that this article was a subjective article. It was just the journalist's personal opinion. I do not believe that a Canadian official would have done this on purpose, just because the Canadian team did not win. I live in Canada and my country is not known for purposely doing something so disrespectful. It makes me really sad that someone would think that they had.

Mistakes occur. I have even seen the Canadian flag hung upsidedown at a hockey game, before. It does happen... Skate Canada should apologize for this mistake, though, since they were hosting the event.

it was not my intention to upset you or judge what happend. i posted the article because i wanted to know if this might be true...

i really was confused and that's why i asked you all about this...cause i'm not sure what to think. and i agree that the article showed an extreme point of view. but i also know that when you are dealing with this kind of symbols (anthems, traditional elements, flags, etc...) the organisers should pay more atention. exactly because they mean something.

and yes, mistakes can occure any time, anyhow...

i don't want you to think that i blame Canada for this. really...if you had that impression, please accept my sincere apologies.

alexandra wrote:

it was not my intention to upset you or judge what happend. i posted the article because i wanted to know if this might be true...

i don't want you to think that i blame Canada for this. really...if you had that impression, please accept my sincere apologies.

Oh no, don't worry. I'm not that upset over it. I just don't believe it to be possible that the Bulgarian flag was hung upsidedown on purpose. Canada has more class than that.

Thank you for posting the article. I found it very interesting.

Look at this article, it's a little bit old, but maybe it would be interesting ...

http://www.eurosport.com/figureskating/world-championships/2006/sport_sto855539.shtml

yes..i've read this.

and after this i asked myself what was wrong? the judging at the olympics or at worlds? and i think that except that spin (not more than loosing 1 point) albena and maxim did the same beautiful, perfect and difficult routine at world championship. so somebody was not apreciated as it sould have been. and i think that judging at olympics was unfair....

this is my opinion at least. not necessarily true or prooveable (is this word correct? )