Olympic team defies order to take down flag
Last Updated: Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 8:26 PM PT
CBC News
The Australian team's banner at the Olympic Village in Vancouver has displeased Olympic authorities. (CBC)Members of the Australian Olympic team say they will defy an order to take down a giant flag they've hung on the side of a condominium building at the Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver.
The green and gold flag, measuring about 50 square metres, shows a golden kangaroo wearing red boxing gloves.
The International Olympic Committee has ordered the flag to be taken down because it's a registered trademark. Displaying a registered trademark goes against IOC rules.
The trademark is owned by the Australian Olympic Committee, which does not object to the flag's use by the Australian Olympic team.
"We do it every Games," Mike Tancred, an AOC spokesman, told the website news.com.au.
Tancred said the team intended to keep the banner flying.
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