Why were the 5 colors chosen to represent the countries in the olympics?
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Because at least one of those colors appears in every flag of the world -- at least that was true when those colors were selected.
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The olympic rings is the symbol of the olympics with the five intersecting circles. There are three on the top and two on the bottom. I believe the colors are red, blue, yellow, red, and green. Supposedly each flag in the world has one of those colors. I would go to www.wikipedia.org to find out more.
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The Olympics games were not originally an international competition, they were held with in Greece.  They used to be male only competitions, and the men had to compete naked to prove they were male after a woman competed and beat some men somewhere back in history before they had to do it nude.\nThere are many more sports in the modern olympics than there were in the classic games, tho there are some that remain, mainly athletic events such as javelin, discus, jumps and running events.\nDuring the classical period the olympic movement did not have the same ideals as the modern one, and there were no winter olympics.\nThe 5 interlocking rings is a new symbol, though there was a torch in the classical period.\nThe games from classical greece were held to honour the gods, now they are used to spread a message about good sportsmanship and international co-operation.\nRules have become rationalised in the modern olympics, no doubt in the classic games the final decision was made by an important official, probably with a few favourites....
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It depends on what country the Olympics are in.  \nIn Salt Lake City, the medals were almost all crystal with a few gold accents.
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because they choose that color
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Olympic Rings\n\nThe Olympic Rings were created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first displayed on the Olympic Flag in 1920. The Olympic symbol of five interlocked rings represents the five original continents (or the five continents that are represented in the games): \n\nAfrica\nAmerica (North & South)\nAsia\nAustralia\nEurope \n\nand the meeting of the athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. The five colors of the rings blue, black and red (top) and yellow and green (bottom) were chosen since one of these colors can be found in the flag of each competing nation.
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Well, I can't draw it online, but it would have a color from every counrty [sort of like the Olympic Rings symbol has] because America is a melting pot of nationalities. I would try to make the stars do an outline of the US on the field [the blue part] with the red stripes remaining as is. The stars would be different colors.
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CHINA=RED\nITALY=GREEN\nENGLAND=BLUE\nAMERICA=WHITE\nSPAIN=WHITE\nFRANCE=BLUE\nJAPAN=RED\nGREECE=BLUE\nGERMANY=GREEN\nSOUTH AFRICA=ORANGE\nINDIA=ORANGE\nAUSTRALIA=BLUE
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5 rings on the olympic flag
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It's an old custom.  Italy plays in blue rather than the colors of the national flag because blue was the official color of the Royal House of Savoy.  And the Azzurri tribute to the Italian monarchy survives to this day.
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7\n\nRed, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Orange, Yellow
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white:color of snow;blue:color of arctic oceans water and red :is color of communism.
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Depends on the air force.  The US is blue and white, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand in blue and grey (mainly blue), Australia in dark blue.
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There are five interlocking rings coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red.\n\nThese five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition.\n\nThe rings are with a WHITE background on the Olympic flag, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem\n\nThough the Baron de Coubertin obviously considered the rings and colours as two independent characteristics, and even though the IOC explicitly states no ring represents a specific continent, still some people list matches. These are some such lists. (Since users of each list claim that list to be the explanation in general use, they are ordered here alphabetically according to the arbitrary, somewhat explanatory titles.)\n\nA map, of sorts\n\n* Blue - Americas\n* Yellow - Africa\n* Black - Europe\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Asia\n\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Blue ocean\n\n* Blue - Oceania\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Europe\n* Red - Americas\n\n\nColours representing peoples, Greek flag\n\n* Blue - Europe\n* Yellow - Asia\n* Black - Africa\n* Green - Oceania\n* Red - Americas\n\nThis is the colours continents meanings who choose an IOC organism: The Association of National Olympic Committees who englobes to all 204 National Olympic Committee like the colours symbology for its emblems
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I'm not sure how to interpret your "hint", but Wikipedia says:\n\nThe Olympic movement uses many symbols, most of them representing Coubertin's ideas and ideals. The best known symbol is probably that of the Olympic Rings. These five intertwined rings represent the unity of five continents. They appear in five colors on a white field on the Olympic Flag. These colors, white (for the field), red, blue, green, yellow, and black were chosen such that each nation had at least one of these colors in its national flag. The flag was adopted in 1914, but the first Games at which it was flown were Antwerp, 1920. It is hoisted at each celebration of the Games.\n\nAre you positive your hinter is reliable? Maybe they meant how the colors (or which there are also five) do not represent the continents?
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Each flag has a main hue. The top four main hues used in flags are red, blue, green, and white (based on the flags of 194 countries).\n\nred   36.60% \nblue  20.62%\ngreen 15.98% \nwhite 11.34%\n\n39 countries have red, white, and blue in their flag \n27 countries have only red, white, and blue in their flag \nThe main color hues of the flags of Muslim countries are red and green \nThe main color hues of the flags of Christian countires are blue and red
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The athlete is representing his or her country. They themselves may not be patriotic, but the olympic gaims were created to bring one another together regardless of religion, belief and without Geo-political ties. Many watching feel pride to have their countries anthem played in honor of a feat.