Olympic flag
The Olympic flag is raised during the opening ceremonies of each Olympic Games, and lowered during the closing ceremonies. The flag features the symbol of the Olympic Games?five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field?designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. The symbol first appeared in the Paris magazine "Le Bon Marche" in 1913 and it was approved at the Olympic Congress in 1914. The flag was first raised during the VIIth Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920. It is fabled that every nation that has an Olympic team has at least one of their national colours in the Olympic flag (including the white background).
There is no official link between the continents and the colours, although the generally-accepted interpretation is:
