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	Ringa Ringa... The interlocking circles were designed in 1913 by France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the IOC, for a 1914 World Olympic Congress in Paris. He apparently wanted the rings to symbolize the first five Olympic Games, but the congress broke up when Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, triggering World War I. Todd Warshaw/Allsport   BACK   NEXT