The five Olympic rings stand for the five continents that compete in the Olympic Games. The rings are interwoven and come in the colours blue, yellow, black, green, and red to represent the togetherness of all the nations and athletes in the world.
In 1913, Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympic Games, first proposed the idea of the Olympic rings. Each ring was intended to stand in for one of the five inhabited continents of the world: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia, and red for the Americas.
The rings’ colours were selected since each nation’s flag at the time at least had one of these hues. One of the most iconic emblems of the Olympic Games, the rings are used on a variety of official Olympic goods, including medals and clothes.
