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Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

59 pointsby epestrtoday at 10:14 AM33 commentsview on HN

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hauntertoday at 11:53 AM

Easy mistake when there are 7 Allianz Stadiums in the world

https://www.allianz.com/en/about-us/brand/partnerships/stadi...

And it was probably 8 when they were designing the medal but Palmeiras didn't extend the naming rights contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubank_Parque

evnutoday at 12:31 PM

The pun in this follow-up makes the whole mixup worthwhile: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4n4l1yyvro

"'We're not going to run from it': Sydney Marathon laughs off medal error"

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cjs_actoday at 12:01 PM

The government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.

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kgerminotoday at 12:57 PM

Right there with the Milwaukee Marathon misspelling “Marathon” on their medals this year.

https://marathonhandbook.com/milwaukee-marathon-handed-out-4...

jansantoday at 1:26 PM

Allianz Marketing Head: My son's new favorite website is "Hackernews". They do not run ads, so how can we get the attention of their audience?

lateral_cloudtoday at 12:46 PM

Someone vibed the medal design

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u89012today at 1:00 PM

TCS. Say. no. more.

pranav_tech26today at 12:37 PM

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