FIVE COLOURED RINGS:
Pierre, the father of the modern Olympics, saw an emblem of five linked rings on the ancient Greek altar at Delphi. The five rings stood for the five circles on a sacred discus. Pierre de Coubertin used this idea of five intertwining rings for the design of the Olympic symbol.
The symbol of the modern Olympics consists of five intertwining rings of equal size, in five different colours. The colours are blue, yellow, black, green and red. The rings are interlaced from left to right. The blue, black and red rings are situated at the top, the yellow and green rings at the bottom.
The Olympic symbol expresses the sporting friendship of the peoples of the earth. The rings represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. Blue, yellow, black, green and red were chosen as the colours for the rings, because at least one of these colours appears on the flag of every country in the world.
