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What do the coulors of the olympic flags stand for?

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The colours on the olympic flag represent a different flag because each flag of every country may have all of the colours or just one of the colours on their countries flag.

Olympic rings The five Olympic rings represent the five parts of the world involved in the Olympics and were designed in 1912, adopted in June 1914[3] and debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. According to de Coubertin, the ring colours with the white background stand for those colors that appeared on all the national flags that competed in the Olympic games at that time. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1912 edition of Olympique:HOPE IT HELPED

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