Games of the XIX Olympiad: Mexico City 1968

Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics

Last modified: 2005-07-09 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 1, 2004.

• The Olympic flag
• The Parade of Flags

See:

• International Olympic Committee / Comité International Olympique
• Olympics - General index

See also:

• Mexico City (Distrito Federal)
• México
• The International Olympic Committee
• Olympic Flags (Germany)

Other sites:

• International Olympic Committee Website

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

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 Mexicoas 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:

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Sources:
	Codes:			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.

				Codes and flags are the official ones at the time.


     Country Spanish			     English				    	     CODE    FLAG   
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 Grecia					Greece						GRE	
 Afganistán				Afghanistan					AFG	
 África Central				Central African Republic			AFC								
 Alemania Democrática			Democratic Republic of Germany			ADE									
 Alemania Federal			Federal Republic of Germany			ALE			
 Antillas Holandesas			Netherlands Antilles				AHO						
 Argelia				Algeria						AGL		
 Argentina				Argentina					ARG				
 Australia				Australia					AUS		
 Austria				Austria						AUT		
 Bahamas				Bahamas						BAH			
 Barbados				Barbados					BAR	
 Bélgica				Belgium						BEL		
 Bermudas				Bermuda						BER			
 Birmania				Burma						BIR		
 Bolivia				Bolivia						BOL		
 Brasil					Brazil						BRA			
 Bulgaria				Bulgaria					BUL				
 Camerún				Cameroon					CMR				
 Canadáa				Canada						CAN		
 Celán					Ceylan						CEI				
 Colombia				Colombia					COL				
 Congo-Kinshasa				Dem. Rep. of the Congo (Congo-Kinsasha)		COK									
 Corea					Korea						COR							
 Costa de Marfil			Ivory Coast					CML					
 Costa Rica				Costa Rica					CRC				
 Cuba					Cuba						CUB		
 Chad					Chad						CHA		
 Checoslovaquia				Tzechoslovakia					CHE					
 Chile					Chile						CHI		
 Dinamarca				Denmark						DIN		
 Ecuador				Ecuador						ECU			
 El Salvador				El Salvador					ESA				
 España					Spain						ESP		
 Estados Unidos de Norteamérica		United States of America			EUA								
 Etiopía				Ethiopia					ETI				
 Fiji					Fiji						FIJ		
 Filipinas				Philippines					FIL				
 Finlandia				Finland						FIN			
 Francia				France						FRA		
 Gabón					Gabon						GAB		
 Ghana					Ghana						GHA		
 Gran Bretaña				Great Britain					GBR				
 Guatemala				Guatemala					GUA				
 Guinea					Guinea						GUI		
 Guyana					Guyana						GUY		
 Haití					Haiti						HAI	
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