Where were the Italian-American athletes waving the Italian flag, or the Irish-Americans waving the Irish flag?
The gigantic red curtains behind the stage drew apart to show another even bigger screen, and pictures of them, swaying, waving the flag.
The largest cheer was for the host team Canada, with Clara Hughes, defending 5000m speed skating champion waving the flag and clad all in red.
There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.
These days, with cities like Stockton, CA and Harrisburg, PA waving the white flag, municipal bonds require research.
That means two things: One, the team is virtually waving the white flag on acquiring Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Dwight Howard.
For now, at least, the Cisco bears are waving the white flag.
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He is not alone in waving the immigration flag in Catalonia.
From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome.
Instead, waving the Kuwaiti flag and clutching pictures of the emir, they demanded citizenship in the country they call home - and the rights and privileges that go with it - until police used tear gas and water cannon to quell the marches.
"It shows you firefighters carrying a brother out, and it shows you the American flag waving over the trade center, " said Joe Esposito, a firefighter who lost a brother and a cousin in the attacks.
On arrival in Jerusalem the cortege, made up of people of all ages, many of them waving the Palestinian national flag and carrying pictures of Husseini, stopped at Orient House, the Jerusalem headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority, where Husseini had had his office.
It's not only angry white male pundits who are waving the white victimhood flag.
The men and women marched up the medieval high street to flag waving and applause from the crowds.
In Bromley, south-east London, she and the Duke of Edinburgh were also greeted by 6, 000 flag-waving schoolchildren lining the streets.
Members of the three armed services, military bands and huge crowds of flag-waving well-wishers lined the route as the royals made their way from a reception in the City of London to a formal lunch at Westminster Hall.
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The 76-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires, who was elected Wednesday as the first-ever Latin American pontiff, was feted by thousands of chanting and flag-waving Argentines gathered outside the cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires.
And so she gets to run around the track waving this small American flag.
Overall, 10 concerts will go out on BBC One and BBC Two, including the legendary flag-waving last night.
The extraordinary scenes in Cairo tonight - with the streets, avenues, and bridges jammed with hooting cars and excited flag-waving people - are a sign of the relief and pride which the crowds now feel.
Crowds of flag-waving Cubans lined the street on which Benedict's motorcade traveled, as Cuban state television captured both ground and aerial footage of the trip.
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Bush laid out an agenda for his second term on Wednesday after declaring victory in a speech to jubilant, flag-waving supporters at the Ronald Reagan Building, three blocks from the White House.
To flatter him, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.
Now analysts have started to lead the cheers, but their flag-waving does not hide some fundamental problems.
Create London's Hadrian Garrard said it would be a "counterpart to the big, flashy, flag-waving expensive ticket offers that we've seen previously".
They distinguish themselves from the other unionists by their opposition to flag waving and unity candidates.
But it's just me, the mayor of Vancouver, practising my flag waving.
The ceremony followed a 90-minute open-topped parade from Mansion House during which the two buses crawled through thousands of flag-waving fans as crowds built up in a sun-drenched Trafalgar Square.
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On Sunday, flag-waving Turks organized small street demonstrations around the country, as news of Turkish casualties trickled out from the border town of Daglica, where the fighting raged throughout the day.
But the Canadian defence held out and referee David McHugh's final whistle sent the crowd of 5, 172 into a flag-waving frenzy.
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