5 Ways the Olympic sports symbols have changed over the years
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INTRODUCTION
The Olympic games have been around for a long time. The logos for the sports featured in them have been too. Here are five significant changes made to them over the years.
1936 berlin
Even though the Olympics have been around for a long time up to this point, the symbols for 1936 were one of their earliest instances. This iteration used symbols that have an item used for each sport in a light color in front of a grey and dark grey circle, contrasted with a black background. Even when the title of each sport is in German, you can still tell which sport each symbol represents.
1968 Mexico
In 1968, the symbols were very colorful. Each symbol had an item from each sport in black, contrasted against a bright color. Each sport even had its own color. This is the opposite contrast to Berlin, which had a light object against a dark backdrop. Some of the symbols are a bit abstract, but once again, they succeed in showing what each symbol represents.
1972 Munich
The style of these symbols has a lot of influence later in games after this one. Instead of items from each sport, these include simplistic designs of people participating in each sport.
1992 Barcelona
These are even more simplistic and abstract takes on the 1972 designs. These designs use calligraphy strokes, circles, and lines to imply people participating in each sport.
2016 Rio
In these versions, the human-like figures from the 1972 designs are now colored white and contrasted against a blue rounded-triangle background.
In Conclusion,
The sports symbols of the Olympics have changed a lot over the years, and with that change came certain trends you can point out after looking at them all.
