Feature: All the Olympics logos from 1896 to 2012

August 2nd, 2008 | 82,590 Views

The upcoming Beijing Olympics are steadily aproaching, with just a few days left until the much anticipated kick off. To celebrate the forthcoming fiesta we’ve decided to do something of a retrospective of all the previous events by gathering round all of the Olympics logo, from the first edition in 1896, to the present day 2008 Beijing one, to the upcoming London 2012 Olympics. Thanks to Gurlz Group, a popular Yahoo Group.

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44 Responses to “Feature: All the Olympics logos from 1896 to 2012”

No winter olympics logos?

Cool post. My favorites are the ones that incorporate a lot of color into the theme, like the Seol Olympics and Sydney Olympics. Interesting to see all the emblems together.

great to see!! Any chance you can add the winter games, occuring since they split them off (i.e. Turin 2006, Salt Lake City 2002, 1998 Nagano, 1994 Lillehammar)

Wow London is terrible.

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Wow. I haven’t seen that London one in a few months. Man that one just blows me away.

Who knows what the next day brings
We all may die right now
The important thing is to cherish what you have
Even if it’s your last breath

People don’t understand this world could use more kindness

Inflation is high
Grades are low
How is this generation going to get out of this?

War is cheap
Gas is expensive
Lives are lost
Right from our pockets

How much do lives cost in this day and age?
A penny or a limb?
Should this be taken lightly?

Just because our president doesn’t know his ABC’s
Doesn’t mean we can’t change this cabinet for him
Checks and balances are beautiful things when used in the right manner
Can’t handle Watergate scandals…
But we’ll take another Bush please…
What has happened to the American people?

Richest nation in the world….
Tell that to your Asian buddies
Or even better
Since this nation has such massive cash flow in it’s great and stable economy
Tell that to the kids in Darfur

Save Darfur
Save America

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sydney is definitely the coolest!! but maybe i’m a bit biased there! ;)

barcelona and seoul are nice too.

and yes, london’s 2012 logo is freaking awful.

thanks for sharing the list though … it’s great to see how much they’ve changed over the last century.

cheers

david
http://www.davidsmeaton.com

What about Sochi 2014?

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This is not all the Olympic logos. This ignores all the Winter Olympic logos.

London’s looks like a censored Lisa Simpson giving head.

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Yep - pretty much everyone in Britain hates the London 2012 logo. That’s what happens when a corporation comes up with the logo and doesn’t ask anyone else what they think.

Great collection of olympics symbols, these symbols represent the messages to the world ,what they were at that year ?

You\\\\\\\'re doing it wrong

All the Olympics?
Winter Olympics are missing.

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The first ones were really detailed. The latest ones very minimalistic :>

What a neat idea! I remember the Olympics since 1988. I was married in 1996, we spent the first month of our marriage watching the Olympics! Totally missed the 2004 Olympics because we lived in Germany and our little TV didn’t have any cool Olympic channels like we have today! It’s in HD!

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pretty nice
but i can’t understand the logo of London 2012

Watch the olympics live here with your computer. Its free if you have Yahoo bar
http://hothot.ath.cx:8080/special/olympics.html

anyway,wish Londor’s can be another great game. Though I can’t understand the meaning of its logo…….

BTW,who can tell me where can I find the song named “Olympic song”?That’s the title song of 1896 Atenas Olympic games.

Thanks for sharing the complete list. I’m looking forward to see more of these posts in the future :-D

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London’s logo is crap which is appropriate because London’s olympics are going to be crap. The country is bankrupt and most of us hate athletics anyway. London is full of drunken beggers, pickpockets & knife-carrying, drug-addicted muggers. We are also miserable b*stards who hate foreigners and wil kick your head in if you so much as look at us.
Our Empire raped the entire world and we would do it all again given half a chance including putting you and your family to work building the railways and naked uranium mining. The logo itself is from Tiswas, a 1980’s kids show made popular by the fact that Noel Edmonds was on the other channel.

London - Come for the gender-reassignment, stay for the ketamine.

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