July 28, 2024
Designed by the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic flag features five rings that symbolize, as he put it, “the five parts of the world now won over to the cause of Olympism”: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The colors of the rings do not correspond to any particular region.
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In 2000 the Olympic torch spent three minutes submerged in the Coral Sea. In 2008 climbers carried it to the summit of Mount Everest. In 2016 in Brazil the torch took a ride on a surfboard. In none of those occasions did its flame go out. But how? To find out, we have to go back to the tradition’s
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