There are biennial questions that arise with the arrival of each new Olympics, and they involve the colors worn by a few nations. Most often mentioned are Australia, Italy and the Netherlands. These ...

Swimmer Katie Ledecky and rower Nick Mead will have the illustrious honor of carrying the nation's colors this weekend ... American rower to ever be an Olympic flag bearer. Mead and his team ...

A video of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass disembarking a flight with the Olympic flag after the 2024 Paris Games handover ceremony has been falsely linked online to the January 2025 wildfires in the ...

and Congress actually passed a law in 1942 that says the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Moreover, the Olympic Charter now recommends flagbearers not dip their colors, and suggests ...