The Olympic rings date back to 1913 when Pierre de Fredy, in Revue Olympique August, according to the symbol that would be used for the Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914:
The emblem chosen to illustrate the World Congress of 1914 ...: five intertwined rings in different colors (blue, yellow, black, green and red) on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world who have come together to Olympism and have agreed to compete healthily.
In addition, the six colors combined represent all nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece and Argentina, the tricolor Mexican, French, British, American, German, Colombian, Belgian, Italian and Hungarian, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian flags, Australian and Venezuelan and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem.
are multidisciplinary sporting events involving athletes from around the world, in ancient Greece were dedicated to the god Zeus. There are two types of Olympics: Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, which take place at intervals, including four years The organization responsible for conducting them is the International Olympic Committee The current Olympic Games were inspired by the seventeenth century organized by the ancient Greeks in the city of Olympia, between 776 a. C. and 393 d. C. In the nineteenth century came the idea of holding a similar event organized to antiquity, is mentally materialize thanks to the efforts of the French nobleman Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin. The first edition of the so-called Olympics of the modern era was held in Athens, capital of Greece. Since that time, the Summer Olympics have been held every four years in various parts of the planet, the only exceptions being the editions of 1916, 1940 and 1944, due to the outbreak of the First and Second World War
