Second is the Vatican, the smallest country in the world (at just ... we won’t be seeing their distinctive flag fluttering in the wind at the Olympics.

Each country's team is preceded into the Olympic Stadium by an athlete or delegation representative bearing his or her country’s flag. The flagbearer for the United States Olympic Team is normally ...

London 2012 organizers were left red-faced after incorrectly displaying South Korean flags alongside North Korean players in ...

In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

On Friday, the Russian government's Minister of Sport, Mikhail Degtyarev, who is also the recently elected president of the ...

Now, Simone Biles will carry the U.S. flag during the Rio Olympics ... and I consider it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying ...