MOSCOW, Oct 18 arm wrestling covered the flag of Kazakhstan with the flag of her country, which provoked confusion on the podium, tengrinews.kz reports. The incident occurred in Antalya (Turkey) on Monday. The representatives of Kazakhstan, who took the second and third places, unfurled the flag of the country on a pedestal. The Turkish woman who won the competition climbed to the top step of the podium and unfurled her national flag on top of the Kazakh one. After that, the girls began to fight for their country's flag to be in the foreground. As a result, the athletes came to a compromise: athletes from Kazakhstan raised the flag up behind the back of the Turkish woman, and the winner held her flag in front of her. The press service of the Committee for Sports and Physical Culture of Kazakhstan stated that this incident «does not affect the general state of affairs and on the friendship of athletes of Kazakhstan and Turkey». Marat Asainov, the coach of the Kazakh national arm wrestling team, apologized for what had happened.
