[csnarpy]

Ahem....

Marial is not the first athlete to compete under the Olympic flag. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, six former Soviet Republics — Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Armenia — competed as the Unified Team. The Olympic flag was raised at medals ceremonies, and the “Olympic Hymn” played when the team won one of its nine gold medals at those Games. In 2000, a runner and a weight lifter from East Timor — like South Sudan a new nation without an Olympic committee — participated as independents. And in London, Marial won’t be the lone athlete hoping to hear the Olympic anthem on the medal stand. Three athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles, which dissolved in 2010 and no longer has an Olympic committee, will also march under the Olympic flag.

http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/26/...hout-a-nation/