According to comprehensive Japanese media reports, Nagoya Mayor Hirokawa Ichiro revealed at a regular press conference on October 21 that there were three mistakes during the award ceremonies or before competitions, where the national anthems of other countries were played incorrectly at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games. All these incidents occurred on the 19th.
It is reported that at the taekwondo award ceremony, the Chinese Taipei team was supposed to be presented with their corresponding anthem for the men’s events, and the Mongolian team should have been presented with their anthem for the women’s events. However, the Iranian national anthem was played instead.
The national anthem of South Korea played before the volleyball match between China's national team and Iran's national team.
At the Asian Games that concluded on the 4th of this month, there was also a problem of the wrong playing of the national anthem.
Broaden apologizing and saying: "Again occurring problems is really not supposed to be happen. Deeply sorry for the players as well as relevant people."
Guangze said: ‘We need to verify whether the relevant double-checking measures have been implemented properly, or whether new mistakes have occurred even with a review process in place. We made very regrettable mistakes, and we express our deep apologies.’
