The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlinking rings – one blue ... A few months before the opening of the Games, a flame is lit at Olympia in Greece. The location is significant and ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light ... Olympic cauldron for these Games is "a tribute to the first flight in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon," which was ...

The Olympic rings monument was reinstalled in Tokyo Bay ... The monument, which will be lit up later on Tuesday, will remain in place next to Rainbow Bridge until the Olympics finish in August ...

"In 2001 the AOC agreed that the people of Goulburn could put up the rings as long as there was no commercial gain, in accordance with the Olympic Insignia Protection Act – OIPA," said AOC ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ... write a new chapter in the great Olympic history with the third Games in Paris, France." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter ...

Tattoos depicting warriors, superheroes, lions and the Olympic rings were among the motivational motifs inked onto some of ...

PARIS, FRANCE – Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the IOC, also designed the iconic Olympic symbol that we know today — the five interlocking coloured rings that represent the continents.