OLYMPIC RINGSSignificance

The five Olympic rings represent the five continents involved in the Olympics and were designed in 1912, adopted in June 1914 and

debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, coloured blue,

yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron

Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Upon its initial introduction,

de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1912 edition of Olympique.

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster,

Higher, Stronger". The motto was proposed by Pierre de

Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. De Coubertin borrowed it from his friend

Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics

enthusiast. The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

A more informal but well known motto, also introduced by De Coubertin, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" De Coubertin got this motto

from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London

Games.

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