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Picture an Olympic ceremony: a flag rises beside a national flag, carrying a shared identity in a single piece of fabric. On its white background are five interlocking rings-blue, yellow, black, green, and red. But these rings are not just decoration. They were deliberately designed for the Olympic Games. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, sketched the design in 1913. It was created-or formally presented-in 1914; the exact 1914 event is not clear here. Then, at Antwerp in 1920, the Olympic flag was inaugurated. That sequence gives the familiar image its history: a simple white flag, a bold arrangement of linked rings, and a symbol people can recognize wherever the Games appear. Remember it this way: 1913, the sketch; 1914, the creation or presentation; Antwerp 1920, its first official appearance.