They came by the thousands, Bolivians blowing whistles and carrying oversized flags, Germans beating drums and dancing in conga lines, Americans trying to plug into this unfamiliar festive celebration.

Reporters of The Sun even travelled to Switzerland and placed an oversized English flag on a field near his home.

In the 1960s, when Lee's mascot was the Rebel, the school was famous for its working cannon and oversized Confederate flag.

And its free-standing mast, which has a plastic sail partly wrapped around it, looks like an oversized flag ready to be unfurled.

She tried to hang an oversized flag on the ceiling of her dorm room at Stanford so she could go to sleep dreaming the American dream about medal stands and national anthems.

Further into the background are the walls of Jaffa, with a breached tower above which flies an oversized French flag.

On the morning of September 14, an oversized American flag, which had been raised before daybreak, flew over Fort McHenry.

An oversized American flag had been sewn by Mary Pickersgill for $405.90 in anticipation of the British attack on the fort.

A couple of seconds later, a man wearing a dark sport coat, pleated slacks that hang on him like an oversized flag, and a dark turtleneck sweater opens up.

He won four gold medals - the first in his sport since Jesse Owens to do that - and after winning the fourth picked up an oversized flag and ran with it.