What the Olympic logo represents

What the Olympic logo represents

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fact of the day, day day day day. Yeah,
do do do do do do do do do do
do doo doo doo doo dooo doo. Today's fact to
the day. My daughter told me this, so I was like,

(00:21):
that's a good one because fact of the day. I
still how the kids suggest fact of the days and
I'm like, yeah, my kids, my geniuses. I've got a
real future in this business, apparently having a secon day
to day. I've just been told and I told Shud
that she's been playing. Never allowed a sick day, I

(00:41):
think once like either like a limb hanging off, like
my just people just by his kingdom, and I was like,
go to school. I had the zombie virus. Yeah, and
made me go to school. But that was brave because
gosh there were some children and I ate their brains. Yeah, yeah,
I'm delicious. The Olympic rings, the Olympic rings, right, the

(01:01):
Olympic rings. There's five of them. Oh my god, really
it's five of them, and they represent the five continents
that participate in the I didn't know that. Because compete,
We've got a couple of idiots in studio. Yeah, does
antargetic can compete? No, it doesn't. What are you looking
in the mirrors? What you see this? A couple of

(01:24):
idiots in studio, I said, what are you looking in
a mirror? Okay? So the five continents that compete Africa
the Americas. Now that's where they'll get you because technically,
if you're counting continents, you count North America and South
America has two different continents. Yeah, but they counted them
as one, the Americans, because then that that along with Antarctica,
you got seven. Yeah, he's cutting his key with written

(01:44):
rings again. Olympic rings to be the same. So Africa,
the America, is Asia, Europe and Oceania. Why are they
the colors? They are blues, black, green, red? Is it?
Is it a pride thing? It's not a pride thing.

(02:05):
It's not a price. It's made a limp rings out.
Now that's so it's the right way up to me.
Because if you've done that from your perspective, you put
three on the bottom of til and bottoms. Okay, you
can pick them if anyone does. So the colors apparently
they needed they had five rings. Yeah, they picked the

(02:25):
five most popular flag colors blues and be like our
flag is represented there what is it is the red, blue, yellow, green, black, Yeah, yeah,
you're right, yep. The reason they interlocked they never used
to be the first every one. They weren't interlocked, they
were just beside each other. But then the interlock represents
they could flung away when they were just all shop.

(02:51):
We lost another ring. People, it was like a regular gator.
Her line is it anyway up there? You should connect them?
So we connected them because that the unity and the
meeting of athletes from around the world at the Olympic Games,
and we all know what goes on in the village unity,
and they should always be displayed on a white background. Okay.

(03:12):
And that's what I was told about the Olympic Rings. Okay, yeah, okay,
So today's back in the day is there's five Olympic rings,
each ring representing a continent that takes part in the Olympics.
And the colors were chosen because they were the most
popular colors of flags at the time of established p