Blue Ensign
Throughout this time, the UK refused to recognise Rhodesia's independence and maintained that the light-blue ensign remained the official flag of the country, but in 1972, the Rhodesian Olympic team raised the earlier pre-1953 dark Blue Ensign at the Olympic Village in Munich, while "God Save The Queen" was played. This was before its expulsion from the International Olympic Committee, four days before the opening of the 1972 Summer Olympics.