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The Olympic rings consist of five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. The symbol was originally created in 1913 by Coubertin. [12] He appears to have intended the rings to represent the five inhabited continents: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. [13]
The five-ringed emblem of the Olympic Games. Each Olympic Games has its own Olympic emblem , which is a design integrating the Olympic rings with one or more distinctive elements. They are created and proposed by the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) or the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the host country.
English: The Olympic Rings, the symbol of the modern Olympic Games, is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field.. It was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Gam
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The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The United States Olympic Committee sued Wizards of the Coast, who at that time owned Legend of the Five Rings, over the logo, because a special Act of the U.S. Congress [23] gave them the exclusive rights to any symbol consisting of five interlocking rings. The only way to completely resolve the issue was to quit using the symbol.
The five points of the five-point stencil are arranged directly above, below, and to the two sides of the center point, rather than (as in quincunx sampling) diagonally with respect to it. [4] In Khmer architecture, the towers of a temple, such as Angkor Wat, are sometimes arranged in a quincunx to represent the five peaks of Mount Meru. [5]
Billie Eilish gave a beachside performance of “Birds of a Feather” during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, joining a performance lineup that included Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chili ...