Why do the Australians wear green and yellow uniforms in the olympics???

The green and gold colours are our national sporting colours. They come from our national flower, the Golden Wattle. These colours also appear on our national sporting flag – the Boxing Kangaroo.

You might have noticed that our Olympic team wore our national flag colours at the opening ceremony. This is common at official ceremonies, but during races and actual sporting events it will always be green and gold. Even in non Olympic events this is usually the case. We wore green and gold to the World Cup Soccer/Football last held in Germany. We did it famously during the Americas cup yacht racing. We will likely continue to do so in other international arenas also such as World Cup Cricket, Rugby and others.

Australia is represented by different colours and different flags at various occasions. During sporting events the Boxing Kangaroo flag is common. During the Olympics when only National flags are allowed, we still use our sporting colours in events.

The sporting colours have never had any role in our national flag or any proposal to change it. Australians do not feel any urge to merge the two. If we did change our flag (and we did reject that in a referendum in 2000) it would more likely represent all of Australia and not just sports. If anything components or colours of the Aboriginal flag would have a far more prominent role to play than those of the Green and Gold.

Since there are alot of countries where their flags has red, white and blue it also makes sense to use a different colour look at the Dutch they have a bright orange look which I think looks cool and orange is not colour of there own flag aswell.

Green and gold are the national colours of Australia, as proclaimed by Sir Ninian Stephen, the Governor General of Australia on 19 April 1984. The exact colours were specified as being Pantone Matching System numbers 116C and 348C. Green and gold are also the traditional team colours of Australian national sporting teams. Nearly every current Australian national sports teams wears “The Green and Gold”, although the hues and proportions of the two colours may vary between teams and across eras. It is widely believed that the colours were chosen because they are the dominant colours of Australia’s floral emblem, the Golden Wattle.

The first Australian national sporting team to wear green and gold was the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899. Their clothes were the traditional white, but the captain Joe Darling arranged for green and gold caps and blazers to be worn for the opening match of the Ashes series. Previously, the team had had no uniform cap or blazer colours but wore an assortment of club or state colours[1]. The Australian cricket team continued to use the colours thereafter, and in 1908 the colours were ratified as the official team colours for future Australian cricket teams. During subsequent discussions by members of the New South Wales Cricket Association, the colours were reportedly referred to as “gum-tree green” and “wattle-gold”.

The Australasian Olympic team adopted “green and wattle” in 1908, but not every team played in the colours. In the 1912 Olympics, an official Australian uniform was adopted for the first time: green vests with gold trimming, and white shorts with green and gold trimming. The Kangaroos adopted the green and gold in 1929, with other teams following.

Green and gold are the national colours of Australia, derived from Australia’s national floral emblem, the Golden Wattle. There are no such thing as “sporting colours”, just national colours used by Australia’s national sporting teams. The notion of “sports colours” is because of the confusion the national flag creates. Australia’s current flag is a British blue colonial ensign, and as such, uses the British colours of red, white and blue. Most nations use their own national colours on their national flag. If Australia is to ever changes its flag, it will most likely change to a green and gold design.

The Golden wattle is the national flower of Australia and so we adopted the colors as the colors worn by our national teams. As far as I know the Green and Gold (not yellow) will remain as the colors of our national team for a long time and I think that movement to change it will not appear for a long time as well.