Olympic Rings Meaning
- How many rings: Five
- What they represent: Five rings represent the five continents.
- Arrangement: All these five rings are interlaced
- Why Interlaced rings: Interlacing shows the universality of Olympism and the meeting of the athletes of the world during the Olympic Games.
- Background: White
- Colours of the Olympic Rings: Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red
- Meanings behind the colours: All six colours including white represent all nations
- Misconception: Rings colour does not represent colour of certain continent
- When Olympic Rings are Designed: 1913
- Olympic Rings Designer: Pierre de Coubertin, Father of the modern Olympic Games. Coubertin proposed the symbol of the rings which aimed to encourage world unity.
May 21, 2016 at 11:25 am
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May 21, 2016 at 1:58 pm
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May 22, 2016 at 4:23 am
This one, the Batman, Superman, Star Wars, CN (Canadian National) and UN logos and the Hammer and Cycle symbol on the former Soviet flag fascinated me to no end as a child. They are considerable reasons why I went into graphic design when I grew older.
May 22, 2016 at 9:51 am
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