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image located by Zoltan Horvath, 21 January 2014
The city of PyeongChang (South Korea) has been elected host city of the XXIII
Olympic Winter Games in 2018. Fifteen winter sport disciplines, organized as
seven Olympic sports, are scheduled in the 2018 Winter Olympics program
scheduled to be held between 9 and 25 February 2018. The International Olympic
Committee (IOC) voted on 6 July 2011 at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South
Africa. Other candidates that applied to host the games were Annecy, France and
Munich, Germany. PyeongChang was elected with 63 votes to Munich's 25 votes and
Annecy's 7 votes.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics
Zoltan Horvath, 02 February 2014
The official Flag Manual of the Winter Olympic Games Pyongchang 2018 can be
found on the site:
https://library.olympic.org/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/175959/flag-protocol-manual-pyeongchang-2018-olympic-winter-games-the-pyeongchang-organising-committee-for-?_lg=en-GB
Jens Pattke, 7 December 2018
The emblem's design has its roots in Hangul, with the shapes that form the
logo stemming from the first consonants of each syllable in the word
"PyeongChang" when it is written in Hangul. The first character in the emblem
also represents a gathering place where the three elements of Cheon-ji-in -
heaven, earth, and human - are in harmony. The second character symbolises snow
and ice, as well as the athletes’ stellar performances. The emblem symbolises a
grand gathering of people from all around the world in celebration of Olympic
winter sports, which is taking place in the harmonious land of PyeongChang.
Source: http://www.olympic.org/
Zoltan Horvath, 02 February 2014
image located by Zoltan Horvath, 21 January 2014
The ratio of this
flag
is unusual, the reverse is unusual (or is it the obverse),
having advertising on it is unusual. This is not anything like an
ordinary Candidate City flag at all. (Well, it's really an Applicant
City Flag, but still.)
But I like the fact that is says "Ville Requérante", rather than
"Applicant City". I wonder whether that's limited to official Olympic
languages, or whether cities do that in their local language.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181303255993.
I've found
another image as well, but there it's in the state of "Ville Candidate" ("Candidate
City"). By then it also the logo had also developed into a version with
different shades for different mountains.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 17 January 2014
Regarding the
ebay picture, it seems to be a part of decoration or background rather than
a real flag.
Zoltan Horvath, 21 January 2014
It's now a flag, but I guess that's how it started out. I've now found at
that even the applicant flag had a logo with multi-shaded mountains. I even know
when that logo was introduced: 1 December 2009.
http://www.gamesbids.com/forums/topic/15967-new-logo-coming-soon/page-2.
I just can't find it on something that could be a normal flag.
Even the logo before that, which was used for the French candidacy of Annecy,
has mountains in different shades of blue. And that one I've at least seen in a
sort of street banner in the video.
So, the logo with only one colour for the whole massif is a bit of an exception.
As is almost everything on that one.
Hm, at the bottom of
http://annecy2018collectors.e-monsite.com/pages/annecy-ville-candidate.html
is a two colour version. I'm not sure they mean they were giving them away at
winter sports events in France, or were given to those events to be flown there.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 January 2014
The flags were "distributed during different international competitions
organized on the French territory, such as the different ski World Cups".
Accordingly, I understand that the flags were offered to the spectators, who
were expected to show their massive support to Annecy in front of TV cameras.
The visual effect of a crowd waving copies of the same flag is, for sure, more
impressive than of a flag hoisted on a single pole.
Ivan Sache, 22 January 2014
Sure, but the Annecy 2018 next to the event flag and organisers flag would
give it an undeniable authority.
But the really impressive thing is a flag surfing over the heads and hands of
the people, of course. (Do we have a good word for such flags or for displaying
a flag in that way?)
A small example can be seen during this behind the scenes video (don't
mind the commentators if you let it run until the actual event).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGySy5VaAdo
It not only shows a practice session with people forming their colours
into a French flag or an Olympic flag, and with some waving of smaller Annecy
2018 flags comes a larger Annecy 2018 flag to cover the whole group. Plus, all
of those flags have the Applicant City logo, proving that that really existed as
a normal flag (not just as the curious thing being offered on eBay).
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 January 2014