The five colors were chosen because at the time when Coubertin first designed the rings, at least one of those five colors including the white background of the flag , appeared on the national flag of each country participating in the Olympics.
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Tell us at nj. This flag was lost after the games and replaced for the Summer Olympics in Paris, and that same flag flew over the Summer Olympic games until when it was retired.
Used Car Specials. What Do the Olympic Rings Symbolize? History of the Olympic Rings The interlocking rings of the Olympic flag was created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the co-founder of the modern Olympic games. He never said nor wrote that any specific ring represents a specific continent. Because the rings were originally designed as a logo for the IOC's 20th anniversary and only later became a symbol of the Olympics, it's also probable, according to historian David Young, that Coubertin originally thought of the rings as symbols of the five Games already successfully staged.
Popular myth and an academic article has it that the rings were inspired by a similar, ancient design found on a stone at Delphi, Greece. For the Summer Games in Berlin, Carl Diem, president of the organizing committee, wanted to relay the Olympic Flame from its lighting point in Olympia to the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Diem, it seems, had a flair for theatrics, and included in the relay a stop at Delphi's ancient stadium for a faux-ancient Greek torchbearers' ceremony complete with a faux-ancient, 3-foot-tall stone altar with the modern ring design chiseled into its sides.
After the ceremony, the torch runners went on their way, but no one ever removed the stone from the stadium. Two decades later, British researchers visiting Delphi noticed the ring design on the stone.
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