> > > Those green guys were just bizarre. I loved the idea - there was a group representing each of the colours/world areas of the Olympic rings. The other groups did look sufficiently African, Asian, American and Oceanic (dig those Maori guys in tattoos and blue plastic, hehehe), but whoever designed the greenies obviously thought Europe is populated mainly by Martians from 1950s B movies.
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> > > Brunnen-"and who am I to say it isn't"G
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> > The colors of the rings represent the five areas of the world? I'd always been told that the five ring colors plus the white background were the most common flag colors of the world.
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> > -eric "The good old red, white, and blue . . . and yellow and black and green" sleator
> > Sun 17 Sep A.D. 2000
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> Yes, they represent that too, according to the TV commmentary we had here. Flag colours, plus continents or world areas. Black is Africa, red is the Americas, gold is Asia, blue is Oceania, and green is 1950s B movies...er, Europe.
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> Brunnen-"hey! our flag is the good old red, white and blue too!"G

I think that they chose green for Europe because they had used the other colours for the other continents. I, for one, do not look like a 1950 B-movie martian - I'm British - but I do, rather frightenly, know of some people who look like they did.

The Olympic Flag has the five rings of different colours on it because all of the flags of the competing countries in the 1930's Olympics (when the flag was introduced) contained at least one of those colours. So now you know.

Chr"I don't believe we actually won a gold medal this year"ico