Games of the 6th Winter Olympic Games: Oslo 1952

1952 Winter Olympics

Last modified: 2023-06-10 by zachary harden
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• The Olympic flag
• "Oslo flag"

See:

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

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

The Winter Olympics began with the International Winter Sports Week in Chamonix in 1924, but the first handover did not take place until the 6th Games in Oslo in 1952, with a flag presented by the City of Oslo. 31 Although similar in size to the 'Antwerp flag' used for the Summer Games, the 'Oslo flag' is different in that it is a regular flag, it is not tied to the flagstaff , and it has no fringe. The flag also had a quirk that the rings showed correctly from both sides, something that was eventually fixed either at the Turn 2006 or Vancouver 2010 games. ("Five rings to bring them all: a presentation of the Olympic flags" 2017 by comment author)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 February 2023