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Olympic Symbols and Flag
The Olympics have traditional symbols such as the Olympic rings and Olympic flame. Although each host city has their own unique Olympic symbol, it always contains a combination of the traditional symbols.
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What do the five interlocking rings of the Olympic symbol represent?
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. It is important to emphasize that Pierre de Coubertin never said nor wrote that the colors of the rings were linked with the different continents 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.
What fuel is used for the olympic torch?
Fuels used for the Olympic torches
Early on, Olympic torches used everything from olive oil to gunpowder as a source of fuel. Some torches were lit with a combination of hexamine and naphthalene along with an igniting liquid. Occasionally, these early-model Olympic torches proved dangerous to the torchbearer. For example, the torch used in the 1956 Games was lit by a mix of magnesium and aluminum, which wound up searing the arms of the torchbearer during the final leg of the Olympic relay. Liquid fuels, which become gaseous to create a flame, were first used to light the torch for the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, and they have been used to ignite every Olympic torch since then. The benefits of liquid fuels include safety and easy storage.
Is America a geographical area symbolized by the circles on the olympic flag?
It is not a seperate ring, but North America is one of the rings on the Olympic flag.
Why were two Olympic Flames burning instead of one during the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid?
Not certain on the exact answer, but back in the 1952 Oslo Olympics a flame was lit in the town of Morgedal, Norway (the Nordic flame). It was this flame that lit the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. This event also occurred prior to the 1980 Olympics (Lake Placid) and also before the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer). However at the 1994 Olympics the Nordic flame was combined with the Olympic flame and lit the Olympic cauldron. So at the 1980 Winter Olympics they may have used these two flames to light separate cauldrons persumably as a symbolic act of rememberance to the Nordic games which pre-dated the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympic flame in 1952 (Italy) was lit from the eternal flame in Rome. Since 1994 only the Olympic flame has been used in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics mainly due to the fact that the Olympic relays have gone straight from Greece to the host country.
Which Australian was banned from competing for stealing the Olympic flag after the Tokyo Olympics?
Dawn Fraser?
How far does the Olympic flame travel?
8000 miles. The relay is broken down with 8000 members of the public taking part each running a mile.
Why is Australia not included in the olympic rings?
Each individual ring does not stand for a specific continent. They represent the "five" continents. One assumes that North and South America are considered a single continent and Antarctica is excluded. It wasn't until the 1912 Games that atheletes came from all 5 continents. On the Olympic Flag, the rings are represented in 5 different colors on a white background. The six colors of the rings and background represent ALL countries and therefore are not specific to an individual continent. I would say that Australia IS represented in the emblem
Please refer to this document describing the Olympic symbols: http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1303.pdf
Which country were the first to light the olympic flame?
Greece, they were the first to ever have the Olympics
What do the colors of the Olympic flag represent?
The colors of the Olympic flag represent internationality. The purpose of it having different colors is to say and person, no matter what race, color, or country can be in the Olympics.
All of the different countries
Leona Lewis
When is the olympic flag raised and lowered?
the flag is raised and lowered when you first walk in the flag is raised and lowered when you first walk in
Who enters in the Olympic torch relay?
usually people that enter the torch relay are mostly people from the country that hosts the olympic games that year.
What does the writing on the olympic flag mean?
Citius , Altius, Fortius - means Faster, Higher, Stronger.
When was the Olympic torch carried to Mount Everest?
A team of climbers trudged through snow and ice to carry the Olympic torch to the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday 8th May 2008, fulfilling a long-held goal of the Chinese government to have the Olympic flame lighted on top of the highest mountain in the world.
Why are the olympic rings different colors?
The five rings represent the five continents that participate the colours are for all the countries that take part have a least one of those colours in their flag.
Yes. After the Games are declared open the Olympic Anthem is played and the flag is brought in and unfurled horizontally and raised on the stadium flagpole.
What do the colors of the Olympic rings stand out?
Do you mean what do they stand FOR?? They were chosen because the five Olympic rings stand for the five major continents of the world, interlinked in friendship, and their colours were chosen because there is not a flag in the world that does not have at least one of those colours in it (black, green, blue, yellow and red).
Which five colors are used in the Olympic rings logo?
The colours are blue, black, red, yellow and green. These colours represented the continents that participated in the Olympic Games. Blue for Europe, Black for Africa, Red for America, Yellow for Asia and Green for Australasia(Australia and the other countries around)
What do the Olympic Rings look like?
The Olympic Rings are composed of five rings.
There are three at the top - one blue, one black and one red.
There are then a further two below this - one yellow and one green.
The rings are all intertwined with each other.
See the related link for an image of the Olympic Rings.
