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The Olympic rings consist of five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. The symbol was originally created in 1913 by Coubertin. [12] He appears to have intended the rings to represent the five inhabited continents: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. [13]
1920: The Olympic rings made their official debut at the Games of the VII Olympiad in Antwerp, in the form of the Olympic flag. 1957: After the rings had seen 44 years of use, the IOC approved the ...
The five-ringed emblem of the Olympic Games. Each Olympic Games has its own Olympic emblem , which is a design integrating the Olympic rings with one or more distinctive elements. They are created and proposed by the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the host country.
The Olympic flag depicts five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. The number of rings represent the five inhabited continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania , and the Americas, while the six colours were chosen, as each of the colours appears at least once in the flags of every sovereign state on ...
Do you know what the Olympic rings mean? Here's a little history lesson on the origin of the famous symbol. Read this ahead of the 2024 games in Paris!
Find out what this iconic Olympic symbol represents.
The colors (including the white background) also represented at least one color on all national flags of the world at that time. The 1914 Olympic Congress had to be suspended due to the outbreak of World War I , but the symbol (and flag ) were later adopted.
A corner flag with The Olympic rings. (Stuart Franklin/FIFA / Getty Images) The flag raised at the end of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, however, had the wrong side on top.