What does the Olympic symbol (the rings) represent?
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wickedwillie
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The colour in at least one of the rings (or the white background) can be found in the flags of every country in the world. It is a way to be inclusive. [Added in response to wickedwillie] That is true, but one should be careful not to assume a specific colour refers to a specific continent (i.,e. black for Africa, yellow for Asia, etc). http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_672.pdf "Combined in this way, the six colours of the flag (including the white of the background) represent all nations. It is wrong, therefore, to believe that each of the colours corresponds to a certain continent!"
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The rings stand for unity, while the five of the different colors appear in all of the worldly flags.
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The olympics rings represents the five areas of the world won over olympism and ready to accept its fertile rivaties.
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The following is quoted directly from the IOC: "The five rings represent the five continents. They are interlaced to show the universality of Olympism and the meeting of the athletes of the whole world during the Olympic Games." "On the Olympic flag, the rings appear on a white background. This flag translates the idea of the universality of the Olympic Movement. At least one of the colours of the rings, including the white background, can be found on the flag of every nation in the world. But watch out! It is wrong, therefore, to believe that each of the colours corresponds to a certain continent!" The way in which the rings are interlaced has changed since the symbol was first introduced. They used to be depicted side-by-side, along a shallow arc. They are now drawn in the familiar offset pattern, with three above and two below. They are coloured, from left to right: blue (top), yellow (bottom), black (top), green (bottom), and red (top).
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Pierre de Coubertin is said to have found the original Olympic symbol engraved on an altar-stone unearthed at Delphi. It has been used at least since Athens 1906 to symbolize the five Olympic continents. When Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 designed a flag for the 1914 Paris Congress of the Olympic Movement, celebrating the movements twentieth anniversary, naturally he chose the Olympic symbol. For the colours he decided to use the colours of the flags of all countries that were part of the Olympic Movement, six colours in all: White for the cloth and Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Black for the rings. The congress was so taken with this design that it adopted it as the flag for the Olympic Movement. http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/oly@ioc.html The Olympic symbol, the five interlocking rings, represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of the athletes of the world at the Olympic Games.
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The coming together of people.
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