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- From: kasprj@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
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- Organization: The Big Wedge
- References: <92360.194140MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:47:21 GMT
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- In article <92360.194140MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- |> The colors used in the Olympic Rings were chosen because they represent
- |> all of the colors of every flag in the world. So says my old boss.
-
- I was told by my father that the colors of the Olympic Rings each stood
- for one of the continents.
-
- Yellow: Asia
- Black: Africa
- Red: North and South America
- Blue: Australia and the Pacific Islands
- Green: Europe
-
- The symbolism of the first three was pretty obvious, being the colors of
- the indigenous races, and I guess the blue for Australia stood for the
- ocean which surrounds it. Never did figure out why green stood for Europe.
- This should probably be taken with a grain of salt, especially if the
- tendency to spread UL's is an inherited trait.
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