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JulietteUramium: 9 months ago via iPhone

What do the Olympic rings represent?

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gatorblu: 9 months ago

The colors of the rings are from the flags of the countries. Every country has at least one of the colors on their flag. The 5 rings represent the 5 particpating continents. At the time it was designed in the early 1900's North and South America were considered on continent. So you had America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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TinkerTuTu: 9 months ago

Actually...it began like this
Africa, the Americas (North and South America are combined), Asia, Europe and Oceania

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TinkerTuTu: 9 months ago

The 5 Olympic rings represent the 5 main continents! North America ,South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

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gatorblu: 9 months ago

Close on the continents. North and South America at one point were considered one continent, and the one you are missing is Europe,

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Dailynews: 9 months ago

The five parts of the world involved.

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baby.ruth: 9 months ago

The Olympic rings represent the national flags that compete in the Olympic Games. It was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin who introduced the meaning. You can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols for more reference.

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0dd1t13: 9 months ago | Last edited at 11:45AM on 8/2/2012

It was originally designed so the 5 rings represented the 5 regions of the world where the athletes hailed from. The colors (and white background) was intended to represent the colors of all of the flags of the participants (at the time).

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