The Olympic rings are supposed to represent the continents. Why are there only 5?
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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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Thats difficult to say. It isn't all the teams that have ever one it, infact it is quite empty now as Caroline who won last year was the first team inscribed on the new ring. They cup can only grow so big so they take the bottom ring off and add a new one to the top when it gets full. If you want to figure it out yourself. \n\nThe first ring only contains 1 team.\n3 rings contain 13 teams.\n1 ring contains only 12 teams as the 1965 Montreal Canadiens use more space then they were supposed to.\n\nThat means the last 52 teams to win the cup are on it.\n\nThe players for that team engraved must follow certain guidelines\n\n-a player must have played at least 41 games for the championship team during the regular season and stay with the team in the playoffs until the end \n-Or played in one game of the Finals\n-There are exceptions made by the league however\n\nSo if you really want to know use that and do some research and you should be able to figure it out. \n\nAlthough estimating that there are 21 players per team there would be roughly 1100 names on the cup. Thats give or take a few though, most likely more.
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The 5 rings were introduced at the the 1920 games in antwerp games. The rings included at least one color from the flag of every participating country.
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The Olmpic Charter says:\n\n"To be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sport must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1.1 only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad
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The symbol of five intertwined rings was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, but gained widespread popularity due to its promotion by Nazi Germany. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1913 edition of Revue Olympique:\n\nThe emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914 ...: five intertwined rings in different colours - blue, yellow, black, green, red - are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. \n\nMoreover, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Argentina, 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\n\n\nSome commonly say that the five rings stand for the five continents but what the man who designed it says would be more apt.
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it differs from cup to cup, as does the world's country count.  There is no set amount of slots to participate.  any country may participate and the elimination rounds just keep paring them down like any play-off series.
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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 think it's misrepresented because of its isolation from other continents. Sports are pretty international, but not current science or art really.
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United Nations basically is made up of 5 countries only, right? The rest are just bystandsers, who are always ignored by the most powerful 5....
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Good question, and a tough one to answer, although I'm skeptical of the "all known criteria" piece of it.  I did browse much of the Wikipedia entry, and I also have a globe here to look at.\n\nTo rephrase this question, I guess we could say, (1) why is it not a continent, and (2) why is it a subcontinent?\n\nTraditionally, there are six or seven continents -- North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.  Sometimes Europe & Asia are combined into Eurasia, and some people like to combine the Americas.\n\nSize and geographic separation seem to be important ... the Central America connection is pretty narrow, as is the Suez connection.  On the other hand, the Ural mountains separating Europe from Asia is an ancient plate boundary (similar to the Appalachians, and much older than the Himalayas), and the Ural boundary certainly is not "narrow."  In that case, however, there are huge historical cultural differences between, for example, western Europe and East Asia.\n\nIn terms of size, Australia is the smallest continent, and Greenland is the largest island.  India is much closer in size to Greenland than to Australia.  (Also compare Madagascar, a large island drifting away from Africa.  The tectonic activity there is similar to India.)\n\nSo on the question of "why isn't it a continent," I'd say size matters a lot -- India isn't big enough -- and I'd say the closest boundary comparison is between the Himalaya barrier and the Urals.  West of the Urals is much, much larger than south of the Himalayas.\n\nCultural comparisons matter too, and by this measure, India could be considered a continent in its own right.  The Indian population is significantly different than the neighboring Oriental and Caucasian peoples.\n\nWhen you balance all this stuff, I guess you say Europe is its own continent -- it's big and culturally differentiable; but India is not a continent because it's not big enough.\n\nThe other part of the question is, why is it a subcontinent?  There, the Himalayas and, to a lesser extent, the Indian Plate, make a big difference.  Because of the mountains, India is geograpically separated from the rest of Asia.\n\nIt's also a large peninsula.  In this regard, we must compare with the Arabian Peninsula (which sits on the Arabian Plate), and maybe with Asia Minor, the boundary of which (by looking at a globe) may be said to extend from the Persion Gulf to the eastern end of the Black Sea, thus comprising a large area encompassing Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.  The other obvious large peninsula is Western Europe itself, bounded on the east by a line extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic.\n\nBut neither of those peninsulas have the Himalaya Mountain barrier.\n\nSo putting that altogether, I guess that's why India is a subcontinent and not a continent.  And since it seems to be the only generally recognized subcontinent in the world, that makes it pretty unique.
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The white background symbolizes peace and truth. The five rings represent the five continents of the world, but a prevalent post-facto interpretation has tied specific colors to specific continents:\n• Blue representing Europe \n• Black representing Africa \n• Red representing America \n• Yellow representing Asia \n• Green representing Australia (Oceania)\n\nThe Olympic flag is a symbol of peace, goodwill, and global solidarity and tolerance. True to this meaning, she has lent her colors to many athletes who were unable to compete under their own flag.\n\nAt Barcelona in 1992, athletes from a part of Yugoslavia not represented at the Games participated as independent athletes under the Olympic flag. They did not march in the parade of flags, but the Olympic flag was raised on their behalf during award ceremonies for them. In the 2000 Games at Sydney, four athletes from East Timor were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag because East Timor did not have international status as an independent country.
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Europe had 51 countries, and 13 qualified - that's around 25% of teams qualified. Asia had 32 teams, and 4 qualified - which is 13%. Africa had 5 qualifiers from 30 countries, 18%. South America had 4 qualified from 10 countries - 40%. North and Central America had 4 teams from 12 - 33% and Oceania had one team from 12 - 9%.\n\nSo South America has more teams in the World Cup as a ratio of teams entering, followed by the rest of America, then Europe. And South America would have had half of their countries qualifying if Uruguay had beaten Australia in the play-off. \n\nI think that because the teams from Europe and South America are considered to be the best teams, it is only fair that they should have more countries repesenting them. But I can't understand why North/Central America have so many considering they never do well in the World Cup.
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I think you are making connections which are not really there.  If you look hard enough, you cant find numeric connections with a lot of things which are coincidence and have no meaning in reality.\nThere are 10 planets now, not 9 (and not 7).  We define our colors very arbitrarily, the same with music notes, there is no real physical meaning behind why green and blue are not considered shades of the same color.  Who decided that Asia and Europe should be different continents, one might very easily make thw argument that should really be one big continent...and India is often times refered to as a "sub" continent.\nI dont see how any of these things would influence the number of dimentions there are, but at very least, they are fun to think about for novelty purposes.
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Thirteen.\n\nOriginally it was thought there were the nine that were 'found' by Voyager 2 in 1986. Since then there's been more exploration and the discovery using the Hubble Telescope in December last year brought the current total to 13.  There's also incomplete rings called Ring Arcs
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7 is what I learned in school.\nBut, some people do classify Eurasia as one continent since it's one large landmass divided only by the Ural Mountains (It's divided culturally, not really geographically.)... so that would make it 6, in a sense.
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They say, when you don't have a great answer, INVENT ONE!, there are guys here who call you stupid and in their answers rely the ignorance and idiotness of their own fear. America is a whole continent, there is no North America continent, or a South American Continent, There are only 5 Continents, Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas, Antarctica's(Oceania), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Continents.\nAmerica is the whole continent, even if the name of this country has the name of America, that does not mean we own the whole continent, yes we are arrogant and lazy, and our politic is to not care what the rest of the world says. They say that we call ourselves America because that's whats they call us in Europe, in Europe they call us "Pricks".
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continents - yes\n\ncountries - no