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Why does USA not dip their flag at the Olympics opening ceremony?
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The “dipping” of one’s national flag in the Olympics opening ceremony when passing the host nation’s officials is a long-held tradition, meant as a sign of respect to whoever is the host of that year’s Games. In fact, it has been official Olympic policy to do so since the inaugural Parade of Nations at the 1908 Olympic Games. Not us, says the United States. Competing at every Games, summer and winter, since the first modern Olympics in 1896 – except for the 1980 Moscow Games, which it led a boycott of to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – the US is the winningest nation in Olympic history, with nearly 3,000 total

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