The Olympic flag was created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914.
The Olympic flag ... has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the center: blue, yellow, black, green and red ... This design is symbolic ; the five colors are those that appear on at least one of all the national flags of the world at the present time united by Olympism.
— Pierre de Coubertin (1931)[
In his article published in the Olympic Revue the official magazine of the International Olympic Committee in November 1992, the American historian Robert Barney explains that the idea of the interlaced rings came to Pierre de Coubertin when he was in charge of the USFSA, an association founded by the union of two French sports associations and until 1925, responsible for representing the International Olympic Committee in France: The emblem of the union was two interlaced rings (like the vesica piscis typical interlaced marriage rings) and originally the idea of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: for him, the ring symbolized continuity and the human being
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