• Dolores [love/loves]
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    4 months ago

    gloryholes are substantially less awful than the actual meaning of the rings

    spoiler

    The 1949–50 edition of the IOC's "Green Booklet" stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: "blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia, and red for America".

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I think that was only afterwards and maybe not the original intention. I remember reading somewhere the rings are supposed to have six colors that show up on every participating country's flag. Like white and blue for Greece, yellow and blue for Sweden, etc.

      But I wouldn't put it past the IOC to make up something racist later

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        4 months ago

        i read that too but i'm not about to give the benefit of the doubt to a dude named "Baron de Coubertin" lmfao