Talk:Olympic symbols

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In my opinion there is a considerable chance that the quote was actually written in 1913 and therefore the date might be a result of a typo in the source (https://web.archive.org/web/20080828204340/http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/symbols/flag/index.shtml). Moreover, the following quote from the aforementioned website might support my claim: "One year later, in 1913, the five rings appeared at the top of a letter written by Pierre de Coubertin. He drew the rings and coloured them in by hand. He then described this symbol in the Olympic Review of August 1913." Most importantly, the Olympic Studies Centre itself corroborates my conjecture, which can be found in the following PDF file: https://library.olympic.org/default/basicfilesdownload.ashx?itemId=83252. KarolloraK555 (talk) 18:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article claims: " The Olympic salute is a variant of the Roman salute, with the right arm and hand stretched and pointing upward, the palm outward and downward, with the fingers touching. However, unlike the Roman Salute, the arm is raised higher and at an angle to the right from the shoulder." This is indeed what I learned in school as well. However, the sources that were linked do not support this at all (one is a poster from the 1924 Olympics, not making any mention of the Roman Empire, and the other is a description of the 1936 games). It was reported in Dutch media today, that the Dutch Olympic stadium (of the 1928 Olympics, the second Olympiad where this greeting would have been used after introduction in 1924) finalized a historic review, and arrived at the conclusion that there is no evidence that this is how the Romans greeted each other, and that the Olympic greeting was instead based on fascist traditions.

I am no expert in this field, but I'd argue that it warrants a more thorough review of this claim. effeietsanders 06:12, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is surprising that there's no Wikipedia article stating the carriers of the Olympic Flag. Even though it is not explicitly specified in the Olympic Charter, carrying the Olympic flag is considered a way to honor prominent sportspeople and citizens according to the values stated by the Organizing Committee: in fact, compiling that list I have seen many people of merit in sports and society. I am currently planning a table with that information, in order to put it in this page. Do you think it is a good idea?

Tropicalia115 (talk) 17:00, 11 May 2021 (UTC) tropicalia115[reply]

Is there any information about the definition of the symbol/emblem: ratio of thickness of the rings and its diameters, distance between the centers, angles "between centers", and color codes?

For the five Olympic rings, the Blue Ring represents Europe, the Green Ring represents Australia, and the Red Ring represents the Americas all make sense, but the Yellow Ring represents Africa and the Black Ring represents Asia do not make sense. Shouldn't they be the other way around? Did Coubertin make a mistake when he design the Olympic rings? I reckon we should urge the IOC to swap the positions of the Yellow Ring and the Black Ring to make it a better representation of the five inhabited continents. 120.16.189.12 (talk) 04:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The black ring actually represents Africa and the yellow ring represents Asia. You were right about their geographical locations being inverted though. Vic Park (talk) 00:06, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I recently discovered that the French page Drapeau Olympique does not exist in English. By the same time, I saw that the page Olympic Flag is a redirecting to this page section Olympic symbols#Flag.
So I would like to know if there is a possibility to substitute the redirection by a complete traduction?
DesPsyCHo (talk) 08:30, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]