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8 Out Of 11 Flags Were Wrongly Assigned During SEA Games Medal Tally Broadcast On TV

What a shame!

Cover image via Twitter

In a yet another blunder during the ongoing SEA Games, yesterday, 25 August, during a TV broadcast of medal tally Malaysia wrongly assigned eight out of 11 countries' flags

Image via Twitter

Here's how the flags were wrongly assigned:

Vietnam was assigned Singapore's flag and Singapore was assigned Thailand's flag, Indonesia's flag was assigned to Thailand, and Vietnam's flag was assigned to Indonesia, Myanmar's flag was assigned to the Philippines and Myanmar, in turn, was assigned Philippine's flag and Laos was assigned the Cambodian flag and Cambodia was assigned Laos flag.

Luckily, the official KL17 site shows the correct flag order:

In response, netizens took to Twitter to vent:





This is not the first flag controversy to take place in KL17:

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