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- From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
- Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 00:43:32 GMT
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- t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
- : (MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET) wrote:
- : : 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.
- : :
- : : -- Rick Yukon, the Hypothermiac.
- :
- : They were supposed to represent the colors of the flags of the members in the
- : Olympic committee when the Olympic flag was designed, I think.
-
- Ok, the Olympic Rings symbol (flag or whatever) was designed in 1906
- I believe. (Common use of the symbol, however, was 1924.) Anybody out
- there with a list of the nationalities of all IOC members in 1906?
-
- ---
- YuNoHoo "No countries are represented in IOC. It's a boys club
- with an international membership. Kindof like the
- Trilateral Comission - eh?"
-