The main sign of Olympic Games is five set circle wreath of different color .To meanings of the five circle wreaths of Olympic Games, once there was a kind of more popular explanation, namely each color of wreath represented a big continent.International Olympic Committee publishes in June, 1979 "Olympic magazine "the 140th: this kind of parlance is false.
According to the Olympic charter, the meaning of five wreaths is the incorporation of the five great continent and the athlete of the whole world with open spirit for the game and amity meet on the Olympic sports games.
Each Olympic Games all has a dissimilarity, but all takes five wreath signs, then again with reflecting a host country's characteristics or race customs .Such as the 17th Olympic Games in Italian Rome held in 1960, use the city badge of Rome as the emblem, namely in the pattern of a female wolf feed two infants.
The 29th Olympic Games emblem is a cleverly made of word pattern"city", the likeness is an athlete who rushes to sprint, again like a person carrying a dance welcome convening of Olympic Games;both represent Olympic Games holding place,Peking,and enrich Chinese charm of the east very much.
Emblem of Olympic Games is as well the Olympic badge of an Olympic games.The organization committees of modern Olympic Games(include winter Olympic Games) will request Olympic Games host design a kind of special badge.The drawing of badge sometimes is through collecting extensively and publicly and choosing an optimization.But, Olympic Games badge have to investigate and get an approval after the executive committee of International Olympic Committee.Successive Olympic Games' pattern of badge although thousand differ thousand, all have a common sign, namely mutual set of connecting of Olympic five wreath signs, in the meantime express the corpus pattern of Olympic Games characteristicses, such as city and the history, geography and race cultural tradition...etc., person's one look can find the time and location that Olympic Games holds. According to the Olympic charter, Olympic Games sign in Olympic badge, the area of the overlay can not more than 1/3 of whole badge total area , and the Olympic sign have to be complete to appear, can not change or move.Olympic Games' drawing of badge not only need to embody Olympic spirit, but also still need to reflect the characteristic of a host country and Olympic Games city.Olympic Games badge is the art that has history in remembrance of meaningful marking.
Olympic Games badge is the most authoritive image sign of Olympic Games.According to "Olympic charter "rules, each host nation's designed badge, without the approval of Olympic Games commitee, can not use for advertisement and business service.This rules promised the seriousness and authority of Olympic Games badge.
From 1896 Athens Olympic Games, successive Olympic Games all has badge design.1988 Olympics badge,have blue, red and yellow 3 kinds of colors, the philosophy meaning of "3 integral whole" is sky, ground and person.
That Olympic Games emblem in 1992, first half part is made of one dot and two flection lines to constitute, the color is blue, yellow and red, three colors.Blue is Mediterranean of the deep blue, yellow is shining the sun of Spanish earth, and red then impetuous life.The pattern represents the life vitality of that long culture and modernization construction. One dot and two lines symbolize the earth, the sky, and then constitute a person's sport appearance, run or jump, symbolize that person actively take part in Olympic sport.In the meantime, this pattern is still apprehensible to open a pair of arms to welcome guests come from each big continent.