--- title: Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin description: Snowboarder Billy Morgan, the flag-bearer for Britain, balanced Great Britain's flag on his chin during the Olympics closing ceremonies. canonical: https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-26T02:08:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:54.509Z og:title: Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin og:description: During the Olympics closing ceremonies og:url: https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt781aaf93edb370fb/698928dd656a3f3759bd3ac0/billy-morgan.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3887 og:image:height: 2186 og:image:alt: Around the Games: Day 16 - Winter Olympic Games og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin twitter:description: During the Olympics closing ceremonies twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt781aaf93edb370fb/698928dd656a3f3759bd3ac0/billy-morgan.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Snowboarder Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin During the Closing Ceremony > Sponsored content. 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Feb 26, 2018 2:08 AM UTC British snowboarder [Billy Morgan](http://time.com/3824543/billy-morgan-snowboarding-1800-quadruple-cork/) used Sunday’s Olympic closing ceremonies to show off one last trick. Morgan, who won a bronze medal in the men’s snowboarding big air competition on Saturday, was the flag-bearer for Great Britain. He added some flair to his duties by balancing the Union Jack on his chin, attracting some admiring glances from fellow athletes and closing ceremonies officials. > [](https://twitter.com/PippaField23/status/967733805476823046) > [](https://twitter.com/ChemmySki/status/967745014041333760) Morgan’s bronze was Great Britain’s [fifth medal of the games](http://time.com/5143796/winter-olympic-medals-by-country-2018/), a winter Olympics record for the country. The 28-year-old reportedly celebrated accordingly, riding through the Olympic Village in a shopping cart after a night of partying, [according to the ](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/25/billy-morgan-shopping-trolley-winter-olympics)_Guardian._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/"},"headline":"Snowboarder Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin During the Closing Ceremony","datePublished":"2018-02-26T02:08:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:54.509Z","description":"He won a bronze medal on Saturday","url":"https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt781aaf93edb370fb/698928dd656a3f3759bd3ac0/billy-morgan.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt781aaf93edb370fb/698928dd656a3f3759bd3ac0/billy-morgan.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Around the Games: Day 16 - Winter Olympic Games","caption":"Around the Games: Day 16 - Winter Olympic Games","creditText":"Ker Robertson—Getty Images,","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5174864/billy-morgan-closing-ceremonies-flag-chin/","name":"Snowboarder Billy Morgan Balanced Great Britain's Flag on His Chin During the Closing Ceremony"}}]}] ```