no not all the time but sometimes you could look at your TV right now because it is going on right now!!
There is no specific rule, but more often than not the flag carrier is a competing athlete.
Flower petal holder
Sushil Kumar was holding India's flag on the first day in London Olmpics.
in 4 years 2012
Mark Grimmette, Luge athlete.
Flag bearer at the opening ceremonies was 1500 meter runner Lopez Lomong and flag bearer at the closing ceremony was archer Khatuna Lorig.
Denise van Lamoen carried the Chilean National flag into the stadium at the 2012 Olympics. She was the first Chilean archer to compete at the Games and she was Chile's Athlete of the Year in 2011.Sadly she was knocked out of the competition at the Games.
Decathlete Rafer Johnson at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome.
They are called the AR's.
Clara Hughes, a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, will carry the flag in the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. She is the first athlete to win multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter games.
There were no Olympics, and so no Olympic flag, in the Middle Ages.
A person named Isabel Clark Rebeiro. She was the flag bearer for Brazil in the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. HAPPY??!! geez..