When the Olympic flag flies at the Winter Games in Sochi, it will be a 100 years since the most Image may be NSFW.
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famous Olympic symbol of all was created. The five interlocked rings were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Frenchman who had led the efforts to revive the Olympic Games. “These five rings represent the five parts of the world now won over to Olympism and ready to accept its fruitful rivalries,” he said. At least one color could be found in every flag in the world.
“This truly is an international emblem. It was made to be turned into a flag and the look of the flag would be perfect, a delight to see fluttering in the wind,” he wrote.
Coubertin used the design as a letterhead in 1913 but it was not until the following year that it was seen in public. The flag flew for the first time in 1914 at Alexandria in Egypt.
Even so, Coubertin sensed the worsening international situation as the world hovered on the brink of war. “Are these rings solidly riveted together? Will war someday shatter the Olympic framework?” he asked.
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