Anchor Cayden Cayden Paget

Given what we know about colors and their many symbolic meanings, it seems like it’d be safe to assume that each color featured in the Olympic rings would stand for something specific, like a continent. But in reality, that’s not the case at all. Coubertin chose the six official Olympic colors—blue, yellow, black, green, red, and white (featured in the background)—because when he introduced the symbol in 1913, every single national flag in the world could be reproduced using the colors in the Olympic symbol.