What do the Olympic rings signify
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.
Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast
According to most
accounts, the rings were adopted by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (founder of the
modern Olympic Movement) in 1913 after he saw a similar design on an artifact
from ancient Greece. The five rings represent the five major regions of
the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Every national flag
in the world includes at least one of the five colors, which are (from left to
right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
The Olympic Flag made
its debut at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. At the end of each
Olympic Games, the mayor of that host-city presents the flag to the mayor of
the next host-city. It then rests at the town hall of the next host-city for
four years until the Opening Ceremony of their Olympic Games.
Originally the idea of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: for him, the ring symbolized continuity and the human being
