The world’s first Olympic flag went missing after the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, and for 77 years, no one knew what had happened to it. Then, someone told Hal Haig “Harry” Prieste, the oldest living Olympic medalist at the time, that the flag was missing. Prieste responded with a shocking claim: The flag was in his bag, since he stole it in 1920. He then backed up his claim by producing the flag.
It turned out that Prieste had stolen the flag on a dare from one of his teammates. Climbing the flagpole at night, he made off with the flag and escaped the Belgian police. Then he stashed the flag in one of his suitcases and kept it around for 77 years. Regarding the flag as unimportant, he finally gave it back, saying, “People will think more of me by giving it away than by keeping it.”
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