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Brazilian
sports are organized into federations at the state level with these
federations grouped into confederations at the national level [but see
the sailing and motorboating federation below]. Most of them
seem to have flags, many stipulated in their organizing statutes.
Joseph McMillan, 8 April 2003
On the website of the Confederação Brasileira de Desportos
Aquáticos I found the description of their flag:
The flag of the CBDA will have the colours flag blue*, light blue, gold, and white, containing pictures of swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving athletes, the initials CBDA and the word BRASIL.
* I have no idea what shade of blue this is.
Mark Sensen, 6 February 1998, translated by Jorge Candeias
image by Joseph McMillan
image by Joseph McMillan
Source: Confederation website
Joseph McMillan, 8 April 2003
image by Joseph McMillan
Source: Confederation website
Joseph McMillan, 8 April 2003
image by Joseph McMillan
image by Joseph McMillan
As far as I know, the bicolor square on this flag is supposed to represent
(or at least to have been inspired by) an actual flag used in orienteering campaigns.
It is thus a flag with a flag on it.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 April 2003
image by Joseph McMillan
Above, I wrote that the national organizing bodies for Brazilian
sports are called "confederations" and the state organizing bodies
"federations." Apparently, for boating at least, this is not correct. The
national body governing sailing and motorboating is the Federação
Brasileira de Vela e Motor (Brazilian Federation of Sailing and Motorboating.
The FBVM statute, at the federation's official
website, describes the
federation flag as blue with the federation symbol in white in the upper
hoist. The burgee (flâmula) is described as the same design, but
triangular. The statute describes the symbol as "white with a blue circle with equidistant white
stars, representing the affiliated institutions, along its periphery, and a
white anchor in the middle." The website shows this emblem with the name of the federation outside the
circle of stars and a very thin white circle between the stars and the
anchor, but I've drawn the flag according to the
statute.
Joseph McMillan, 2 September 2003
image by Joseph McMillan
Source: Confederation website
Joseph McMillan, 8 April 2003
image by Joseph McMillan
Source: Confederation statute
Joseph McMillan, 8 April 2003
The flag of the Brazilian Tennis Confederation is [no longer--Ed.] at
http://www.cbtenis.com.br/aniv4.htm.
Reported by Dov Gutterman, 22 December 2000