What is the meaning of each of the individual Olympic rings?
The emblem of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field. This was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierred de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. These five rings stand for passion, faith, victory, work ethic and sportsmanship. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1913 edition of Revue Olympique: The emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914….: five intertwined rings in different colors – blue, yellow, black, green, red – are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. According to De Coubertin the ring colors stand for those colors that appeared on all the national flags of the world at that time. __ The current view of the International Olympic Committee is that the emblem “reinforces
