With less than two weeks until the start of 2022 Beijing Olympics, here is a quick crash course on the origins, meaning and history of the Olympic rings
Pierre de Coubertin, a French historian and founder of the International Olympic Committee, created the rings in 1913. The iconic design and flag were adopted in 1914, but they did not make their official Olympic debut until the 1920 Antwerp Games since the 1916 event scheduled to take place in Berlin, Germany, was canceled due to World War I.
In Coubertin’s words, the five rings represented the five parts of the world “now won over to the cause of Olympism.”Going from left to right, the five colors for the Olympic rings are blue, yellow, black, green and red. Contrary to popular belief, the five colors of the Olympic rings do not directly correspond to given continents. Instead, the five colors were chosen because at least one of those colors appeared on the national flag of each country participating at the time Coubertin came up with the design.One tweak the design has undergone over time is the overlapping and connecting nature of the rings.
The rings were connected in Coubertin’s initial design, but in 1986, the IOC Graphics Standards included a definition stating that an official version with spaces between rings be produced. The IOC Executive Board returned to Coubertin’s original, interlaced design in 2010.launched a six-stop U.S. tour leading up to the start of the Tokyo Games that shows off life-sized Olympic rings across the country.
It started in Los Angeles, the host city for the 2028 Olympic Games, at Universal Studios Hollywood on July 3 and will conclude July 25 at 30 Rock in New York City. Along the way, the rings have scheduled stops in
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