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13 Facts About Olympic symbols

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

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

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3.

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

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

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

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The Olympic symbols 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.

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

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

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

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10.

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

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Olympic symbols 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.

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12.

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

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

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