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Games of the XIX Olympiad: Mexico City 1968

Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 1, 2004.

The Olympic flag
The Parade of Flags

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International Olympic Committee Website

The Olympic flag:

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, July 2005.
Flag adopted: 1914.

The Parade of Flags

During the Openings Ceremony all the teams paraded into the stadium behind their flags, and during the Closing Ceremony the flags did so once more. The flags and teams paraded in alphabetical order according to the language of the host country, except for Greece as the origin of the Olympic Games which always leads the parade, and Mexico as the host country which closed the parade. The flags themselves all have the same size, and all have the ratio 2:3 or 3:5.
The millions watching the Opening Ceremony saw the flags and athletes enter the stadium in this order:

See: Page with flags. Warning! This page contains more than 100 images

Sources:
	Codes:			International Olympic Committee Website
				Comité Olímpico Mexicano.
	Text:			Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán
	Opening Ceremony:	October 12, 1968.
	
	Note:			The names were given all in Spanish language, horizontally writen
				in block black letters, when the case, the country name in local
				language and script appeared in small black letters beneath.

				Abreviations (ABR.) are the official ones at the time.


     Country Spanish			     English				    	     ABR.    
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 Grecia					Greece						GRE	
 Afganistán				Afghanistan					AFG	
 África Central