The Olympic flag was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress ... The interlocking rings were first drawn by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, on a letter in July ...

The modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens in ... appeared in the Olympic magazine entitled “The 1914 Symbol and Flag ...

Coubertin is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games and served as IOC president from 1896 to 1925. The Olympic flag was first flown in an Olympic stadium during the 1920 Antwerp Games.

In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

Each country's team is preceded into the Olympic Stadium by an athlete or delegation representative bearing his or her country’s flag. The flagbearer for the United States Olympic Team is normally ...