14 Facts About Olympic Flag

International Olympic Committee uses icons, flags and symbols to elevate the Olympic Games.

Traditional Olympic Flag motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger".

Olympic Flag appears to have intended the rings to represent the five inhabited continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Current view of the International Olympic Flag Committee is that the symbol "reinforces the idea" that the Olympic Flag Movement is international and welcomes all countries of the world to join.

Nevertheless, the pre-2014 logo of the Association of National Olympic Flag Committees placed the logo of each of its five continental associations inside the ring of the corresponding colour.

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The Olympic Flag torch is carried by athletes, leaders, celebrities, and ordinary people alike, and at times in unusual conditions, such as being electronically transmitted via satellite for Montreal 1976, submerged underwater without being extinguished for Sydney 2000, or in space and at the North Pole for Sochi 2014.

Olympic Flag medals awarded to winners are another symbol associated with the Olympic Flag games.

Olympic Flag diplomas are given to competitors placing fourth, fifth, and sixth since 1949, and to competitors placing seventh and eighth since 1981.

Several other composers have contributed Olympic Flag music, including Henry Mancini, Francis Lai, Marvin Hamlisch, Philip Glass, David Foster, Mikis Theodorakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vangelis, Basil Poledouris, Michael Kamen, and Mark Watters.

Olympic Flag inquired why there were so few Greek men defending Thermopylae.

Olympic Flag 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.

Olympic Flag salute has fallen out of use since World War II because of its resemblance to the Nazi salute.

Olympic Flag movement is very protective of its symbols; as many jurisdictions have given the movement exclusive trademark rights to any interlocking arrangement of five rings, and usage of the word "Olympic Flag".

Under the Nairobi Treaty, if the IOC authorizes use of an Olympic Flag Symbol in a country that is a party to the treaty, then that country's National Olympic Flag Committee is entitled to a portion of any revenue generated from the IOC's authorization of use.