London 2012 Summer Olympics

I watched the rerun of the summer Olympic opening ceremony with my mum a couple of hours ago and we saw this flag:

Funny cause I've never seen this flag before. So I did a bit of research (wikipedia for once, wasn't too helpful surprisingly).

This is the Independent Olympic Athletes flag, a flag that represents athletes from countries who are currently in turmoil, internally or externally, and thus unable to represent their countries. This year, there are 4 athletes competing under this flag at this year's summer Olympics: athletes from the Netherlands Antilles and South Sudan.

Just thought it was something interesting to share. What's also interesting is that apparently, Myanmar and Libya have new and improved flags.

This post is brought to you by her Majesty's upside down happy grin: