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I had also heard David Icke mention soemthing about this.

Two of the most well-known symbols of the Olympic Games, the Olympic rings and the torch relay, did not originate in ancient Greece, but instead were immortalized in Nazi Germany, according to the recently published book, The Naked Olympics. The lasting power of these symbols demonstrates how effective the Nazis were at creating powerful, dramatic images. It also reveals the association that Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and his followers wished to make between Nazi Germany and classical Greece. According to the book’s author, Tony Perrottet, German filmmaker and propagandist Leni Riefenstahl fabricated the myth that the Olympic rings hailed from Delphi, a city in ancient Greece. Baron Pierre de Coubertain of France originally designed the rings in 1913. De Coubertain was the founder of the International Olympic Committee. He created the rings to symbolize the first five Olympic games. Archduke Ferdinand of Austria’s assassination curtailed de Coubertain’s plan to feature the rings at a 1914 Olympic Congress world event in Paris. Riefenstahl, however, latched on to the creation. “Leni Riefenstahl just liked (the ring design) as a symbol, and I believe she had it engraved at Delphi for a film shoot,” Perrottet told Discovery News. “The image stayed there for years, and people thought it was from ancient Greece!”

Link: Olympic Symbols Have Sinister Origins