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[rybak 3,316]

Good old times when Eswatini was Swaziland 

[Olympian1010 8,255]

8 minutes ago, dcro said:

They literally had Guinea flag with a giant R added.

Explanation for this is quite simple. 1) They had just been through one of the worst wars in modern Africa. 2) They needed colors that weren’t used by a particular faction. 3) Red, Yellow, Green are the Pan-African colors. They represent the unity of Africa and it’s people. They are homage to Ethiopia who strayed independent from European colonization (except for the brief period before and during WW2 when those Italian thugs launched a war on them). 4) You add the R because you know, to be different than Guinea.

[Gianlu33 5,337]

Tonga always have a good outfit

[Olympian1010 8,255]

3 minutes ago, rybak said:

Good old times when Eswatini was Swaziland 

Eswatini is the endonym for the country (meaning the name that the people themselves use), while the Swaziland was the exonym (the name people outside used). They switched to the endonym as a way of distancing themselves from their colonial past.

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Explanation for this is quite simple. 1) They had just been through one of the worst wars in modern Africa. 2) They needed colors that weren’t used by a particular faction. 3) Red, Yellow, Green are the Pan-African colors. They represent the unity of Africa and it’s people. They are homage to Ethiopia who strayed independent from European colonization (except for the brief period before and during WW2 when those Italian thugs launched a war on them). 4) You add the R because you know, to be different than Guinea.

 

That flag was introduced in 1961, so they had it long before the war.

[Olympian1010 8,255]

Just now, dcro said:

 

That flag was introduced in 1961, so they had it long before the war.

Well, huh. Only points 3 and 4 mater then 

 

Side note: I love the current Rwandan flag  

[MHSN 3,783]

49 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Thanks to Totallympics I'm associating this 99% with @MHSN and barely 1% with Sydney 2000  

 

actually I wanted to use the Olympic flag but Sindo told me some lady from IOC contacted her (or something like that) telling him that's illegal so I changed it to my favorite Olympics logo, while I also followed 1996 Olympics and remember few things from 1992 too, but 2000 was the first Olympics I watched as much as possible.

 

even though it was NOT in summer, the timing was very bad and all of 3 Iran gold medals happened when I was at school or on the school bus on my way to school   well and at the time there was no internet (I mean not like now) or smartphones to follow everything even when you are not at home still that's my favorite Olympics.

[Gianlu33 5,337]

Cliff Meidl His history is AMAZING, when he was young he risked to lost his leg...

[dcro 10,210]

I can see @Olympian1010 !

 

Oh, wait, he wasn't born yet. Nevermind...

[hckošice 15,693]

that idiotic habbit when the flag bearer can not drop the USA flag even for a second during the opening ceremmony....