Why are australia's colors in the olympics yellow and green when its flag colors are red white and blue? ?

Question

...just wondering because all the different types of suits the australian Olympians wear (in any sport) do not contain their flag colors, where most countries stick to there flag colors to make up their jerseys..

Answer 1

Traditionally, the nation colours come from the flag of the nation. however due to our fierce rivalry with the poms we decided to change our colours (as the australian and british flags have the same colour - red,white and blue) to something different. the green and gold symbolizes the australian landscape and also the wattle (the australian floral emblem

Answer 2

We wear green and gold for all our national sports.

As the first person states it is based on our National Floral symbol.

The Netherlands are another who do the same.

Their sporting colour is orange, which isn't on their flag either.

Answer 3

Green and gold are the national colours of Australia, as proclaimed by Sir Ninian Stephen, the Governor General of Australia on 19 April 1984.

It is widely believed that the colours were chosen because they are the dominant colours of Australia's floral emblem, the Golden Wattle.