#3 The colours of the Olympic flag symbolise the whole world
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The Olympic flag was designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in the year 1912. It consists of five interlaced rings of different colours on a white background. The colours of the rings are blue, yellow, black, green and red.
“The six colours combined in this way reproduce the colours of every country – without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tricolours of France, England, America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Hungary, and the yellow and red of Spain, are placed together with the innovations of Brazil or Australia, with old Japan, and with new China. Here is truly an international symbol,” Coubertin stated in 1912. He is also the founder of the International Olympic committee.
The Olympic flag was first displayed in Paris in 1914 when the International Olympic Committee were celebrating its 20th anniversary, and it was flown for the first time at Antwerp 1920.
