A wee bit of trivia for you...
Despite popular misconceptions there is no link between the ring colours and a continent.
The five interlocking rings represent the five continents brought together by the Olympic Movement, or the five main regions which are:
Africa
The Americas (North and South America are combined)
Asia
Europe
Oceania.
As it says in the Olympic Charter, the five-ringed symbol "represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games." The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. The colours of the rings represent the flags of the countries that participate in the Olympics. Every flag of a country participating in the Olympics includes one of those colours.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin conceived both the symbol and the flag.
Not coincidentally, Coubertin was also the founder of the modern Olympic Movement.
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