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Sendt: 21. september 2008 10:10
Til: Dragnes, Kjell
Emne: kjære kjell

Hei

Leste din kommentar til Condi ang den russiske flaggbruken i OL i 92. Som kjent var det 2 OL det året; Albertville og Barcelona. Historien er ikke alltid enkel. Ingen kan aldri huske alt....
Looking back:

Under vinter-OL (Albertville) deltok 6 av de tidl. sovjetiske statene sammen under navnet EUN (Equipe Unifiée).
Man brukte det olympiske flagget som sitt flagg og den olympiske hymnen ble brukt i forb med mealjeseremonier og åpningsseremoni. Altså et velkjent flagg for de fleste, selv om det ikke er veldig russisk, mens hymnen nok ikke er like kjent i de brede lag (komponert av Spyridon Samaras).

I Bareclona (sommer-OL samme år) brukte EUN de forskjellige nasjonale flaggene og nasjonalsangene i forb medaljeseremonier, selv om man fortsatt konkurrerte sammen under navnet EUN. Ved øvrige seremonier tok man på nytt frem det olympiske flagget og den olympiske hymnen.

Direkte fra Wikipedia (som vi nok kan stole på i denne sammenheng):
The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union (except the Baltic states) at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The official French name used was Équipe Unifiée, hence the abbreviation EUN which appears in result listings. The Unified Team was sometimes informally called the CIS Team (Commonwealth of Independent States), although Georgia did not join the CIS until 1993.
During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists. By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform. Where an EUN individual won a medal, the national flag of the medallist's nation was raised rather than the Olympic flag, and a gold medallist's national anthem was played rather than the Olympic Hymn. The EUN team continued to be represented at all ceremonies by the Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn.
While only six of the EUN countries took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics, all twelve participated in the Summer Olympics.

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Jens