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Download Solution PDFThe five colours of the rings in the symbol of the Olympic Games are red, blue, green, yellow and _____.
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is black.
Key Points
- The five colours of the rings in the symbol of the Olympic Games are red, blue, green, yellow and black.
- The Olympic symbol – widely known throughout the world as the Olympic rings – is the visual ambassador of Olympism for billions of people.
- Based on a design first created by Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic rings remain a global representation of the Olympic Movement and its activity
- The Olympic symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions (the Olympic rings), used alone, in one or in five different colours.
- When used in its five-colour version, these colours shall be, from left to right, blue, yellow, black, green and red.
- The rings are interlaced from left to right; the blue, black and red rings are situated at the top, and the yellow and green rings at the bottom in accordance with the following graphic reproduction.
- “The Olympic symbol expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.
- The Olympic rings were publicly presented for the first time in 1913.
- In the centre of a white background, five rings interlaced: blue, yellow, black, green and red.
- Blue, yellow, black, green, and red are the order of the colour of the Olympic logo rings.
- It represents five continents: Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and Europe.
- The Olympic Charter once ascribed a ring colour to each continent:
- Blue for Europe
- Yellow for Asia
- Black for Africa
- Green for Oceania (or Australia)
- Red for America.
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