Olympic Rings

Does anyone know what does each ring color represent in the five rings of the Olympic symbol?


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Re: Olympic Rings

I thought it was one ring for each continent but looking on wiki:

  • These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition.

  • The ring colours with the white background stand for those colors that appeared on all the national flags of the world at that time.

  • However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Oceania and red for America (North and South considered as a single continent); this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin (the symbol's designer) had intended it.