Games of the XIX Olympiad: Mexico City 1968

Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics

Last modified: 2005-12-10 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 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.    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 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	
 Holanda				Netherlands					HOL				
 Honduras				Honduras					HON			
 Honduras Británicas			British Honduras				HBR		
 Hong Kong				Hong Kong					HOK						
 Hungría				Hungary						HUN			
 India					India						IND		
 Indonesia				Indonesia					INA				
 Irak					Iraq						IRK		
 Irán					Iran						IRN								
 Irlanda				Ireland						IRL			
 Islandia				Iceland						ISL			
 Islas Vírgenes				Virgin Islands					ISV					
 Israel					Israel						ISR		
 Italia					Italy						ITA		
 Jamaica				Jamaica						JAM			
 Japón					Japan						JPN		
 Kenia					Kenya						KEN		
 Kuwait					Kuwait						KUW		
 Líbano					Lebanon						LIB		
 Libia					Libya						LBA				
 Liechtenstein				Liechtenstein					LIE				
 Luxemburgo				Luxembourg					LUX				
 Madagascar				Madagascar					MAD				
 Malasia				Malaysia					MAL				
 Malí					Mali						MLI		
 Malta					Malta						MLT		
 Marruecos				Morocco						MAR		
 Mónaco					Monaco						MON		
 Mongolia				Mongolia					MGL				
 Nicaragua				Nicaragua					NIC				
 Níger					Niger						NIG		
 Nigeria				Nigeria						NGR		
 Noruega				Norway						NOR			
 Nueva Zelandia				New Zealand					NZL				
 Pakistán				Pakistan					PAK				
 Panamá					Panama						PAN		
 Paraguay				Paraguay					PAR				
 Perú					Peru						PER		
 Polonia				Poland						POL		
 Portugal				Portugal					POR				
 Puerto Rico				Puerto Rico					PRO				
 República Árabe Unida			United Arab Republic				RAU			
 República Dominicana			Dominican Republic				DOM						
 Rumania				Romania						RUM			
 San Marino				San Marino					SMR				
 Senegal				Senegal						SEN			
 Sierra Leona				Sierra Leone					SLA				
 Singapur				Singapore					SIN				
 Siria					Syria						SIR							
 Sudán					Sudan						SUD		
 Suecia					Sweden						SUE		
 Suiza					Switzerland					SUI			
 Surinam				Suriname					SUR				
 Tailandia				Thailand					TAI				
 Taiwán					Republic of China (Taiwan)			TWN				
 Tanzania				Tanzania					TAN				
 Trinidad y Tobago			Trinidad and Tobago				TRT						
 Túnez					Tunisia						TUN		
 Turquía				Turkey						TUR		
 Uganda					Uganda						UGA			
 U. R. S. S.				Union of Soviet Socialist Republics		URS						
 Uruguay				Uruguay						URG			
 Venezuela				Venezuela					VEN				
 Vietnam				Vietnam						VNM		
 Yugoslavia				Yugoslavia					YUG						
 Zambia					Zambia						ZAM		
 México					Mexico						MEX