Who designed the Olympic rings in 1913?

Pierre de Coubertin designed the Olympic rings in 1913.

The French educator and Olympic movement founder created the emblem as five interlocking rings in blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white background. The design first appeared publicly in 1913 and was adopted as an Olympic symbol before the First World War.

The five rings represent the union of the five inhabited parts of the world involved in the Olympic movement at the time. A common modern claim says each ring color corresponds to a particular continent, but that official one-color-per-continent explanation is not supported by the Olympic Charter.

The rings made their Olympic debut on a flag at the 1920 Antwerp Games. They are distinct from the Olympic flame, which has a separate ancient-Greek-inspired symbolism and was first used in the stadium at Amsterdam 1928.