Canadian Olympic Committee

Last modified: 2023-11-04 by rob raeside
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  image by Zoltan Horvath, 5 April 2014

• Description of the flag
• Red flag version
• Earlier flags

See also:

• International Olympic Committee
• Montreal Olympics (1976)
• Calgary Olympics (1988)
• Vancouver Olympics
• Canada: Index of Pages

Description of the flag

The flag of the Canadian Olympic Committee dates back to the 1970s. The early flag was blue with a white extended oval in the centre bearing a red maple leaf above the Olympic rings.
Darrell Neuman, 3 July 2012

The website at http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1708374/thumbs/n-DIMITRI-SOUDAS-RESIGN-huge.jpg shows a variant of the flag with a white background with red maple leaf above Olympic rings within a red oval outline. The logo can be seen at http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ineWBT0Iiyk/Te-xmHotkUI/AAAAAAAABjQ/zhOvN3rTuek/s1600/Canadian+Olympic+Team+logo+2011.png.

Dave Fowler, 31 March 2014

Red flag version

image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 May 2018

Earlier Flags

image by Zoltan Horvath, 5 April 2014

Some earlier blue flags of the COC didn't use the red oval border around the logo.

image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 May 2018

This version with red rings was advertized for sale in 2023:

image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 6 October 2023

image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 May 2018