Same flag, different countries...

When Liechtenstein made its Olympic debut at Berlin in 1936 they discovered that the country's flag of two equal horizontal bands of blue on the top and red was identical to that of Haiti. It led to a crown being added to the top left hand corner of Liechtenstein's flag the following year to differentiate it. But it was not until 1976 that it got hoisted at an Olympic medal ceremony when Hanni Wenzel won a bronze in the giant slalom at the Winter Games in Innsbruck.

Athens 1896 suffered from lack of exposure

When the first Olympics of the Modern era were held, at Athens in 1896, they were officially covered by only seven photographers taking less than 100 pictures in total. By comparison, photographers working for Getty Images at Rio 2016 took 1.5 million pictures alone. Five Greek, one American and one German photographer were commissioned to record the photographically at Athens 1896. The most important among them was the German Albert Meyer, who was superior to the other photographers both technically and aesthetically. At least 56 pictures were taken by him, the most famous of which was of the marathon winner Spyridon Louis. Meyer died penniless in 1923 after losing his fortune in the German hyperinflation crisis.