Olympic Game Logo

Congratulation to China had made the recent olympic game successful. Mean time, also congratulation to all the athlete, who become the new record holder fro the game and world record. Two month ago (before the game start), all of them are worry about the game do china can handle such a big event, but now China had proven that they are really to handle such a big event.

   

MOTTO

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is latin word for "Faster, Higher, Stronger". This motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin  on the creation of the Internationl Olympic Committee in 1894. This motto was introduced in 1924 at the Paris Olympic Games.

A more informal and a well known motto introduced by De Coubertin too, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" De Coubertin got this motto from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London Games.

Olympic Ring

As we know, the olympic logo consist of 5 different colour interlocking rings. The five rings stand for Passion, Faith, Victory, Work Ethic and Sportsmanship.

Refer to Olympic charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of the athletes from all the countries all over the world. The explanations about the symbolism of the colour rings is represent the five continets, there are Africa, America Asia, Europe and Oceania