"However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each color corresponded to a particular continent:

"However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each color corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for the Americas; this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought)." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols#The_Rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols#The_Rings