A gold medal-winning athlete on Kazakhstan's shooting team was unintentionally dishonored after organizers of a competition in Kuwait mistakenly played a parody of Kazakhstan's national anthem from ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Kazakhstan wants a probe of how a parody of its national anthem instead of the genuine song was played at an international sports competition. Kazakhstan’s Maria Dmitrienko won a gold ...

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. The visitors refused to kick ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event “a scandal” and demanded an investigation of the incident. Maria Dmitrienko won a ...