Video: Russian badminton players celebrate win with terrible Haka

Video: Russian badminton players celebrate win with terrible Haka

Cultural appropriation or appreciation?

It's the question we constantly find ourselves asking whenever the latest European gives their own interpretation of the Haka.

In the past six months we've seen the English 'Haka-rena' and the bizarre use of it for an Italian football show, and now two Russian badminton players have given it a go.

Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov were pumped after beating Japanese opponents Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa to be crowned world superseries badminton champs and decided to celebrate with their own version of the Maori war dance.

Naturally it starts off with some of the clichéd 'moves' made famous by the All Blacks, before descending into a quick round of pat-a-cake, which is particularly weird.

Harmless fun or offensive interpretation? Watch the video.

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