2024-07-04 02:43:10
A white base and five intertwining rings of different colors. Everyone knows the famous Olympic flag, the real visual representation of Olympism. However, it was not until twenty years after the restoration of the Games in 1896 that this symbol appeared in the widely codified world of the Olympic Games.
It was also Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was in the background. It was July 15, 1913, the organizer of the Games wrote a letter to Baron Godefroy de Blonay, a Swiss member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Drawn and colored by the Baron himself at the head of this letter, the five Olympic rings have just been born.
Symbol of universality
A year later, in June 1914 at the Sorbonne, during the 6th Olympic Congress celebrating the 20th anniversary of the restoration of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin officially unveiled the Olympic flag. It’s your birth certificate. From 1915, it was held in the Lausanne Hall at the time when the IOC moved to the city of Vaudois.
It wasn’t long before the flag was unveiled in 1920 and the Antwerp Games during the unveiling ceremony. Planned for presentation during the 1916 edition in Berlin, the flag was folded into the bottom of the IOC collection box because of the First World War.
In the opinion of Pierre de Coubertin, the five rings represent the five continents, universal symbols of the event. Baron chose five colors (blue, red and red for the top three rings, yellow and green for the bottom two) in addition to the white background because they were on the flags of the countries of the world in 1913. the case today. Each country can recognize at least one of its national colors.
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However, contrary to popular belief, which associates blue with Europe, black with Africa, red with the Americas, yellow with Asia and green with Oceania, the IOC has always opposed the idea. The colors of the rings represent the unity of each continent through sport and the gathering of athletes from around the world at the Olympic Games. “The Olympic symbol represents the work of the Olympic Movement and represents the unity of the five regions and the meeting of athletes from all over the world at the Olympic Games,” it is stated in Article 8 of the Olympic Charter.
In 1957, the IOC established the definition of the Olympic rings: “The Olympic emblem consists of five rings connected with equal sizes (Olympic rings), used alone, in one or five colors. When the five-color system is used, the colors are, from left to right, blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The rings are connected from left to right; There is a blue, black and red ring at the top, yellow and green at the bottom. »
In 1986, the IOC proposed a variation with the Olympic flag which included gaps at the intersections of the rings. In 2010, the IOC finally reversed this choice and the flag lost its white spaces between the intersections.
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