what does ROOTS mean on the olympic teams uniform?
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Roots is a canadian manufacturer that made the USA team uniforms
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The Italian national team wear blue because it is the colour of Savoia, the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until the end of the second world war, the Italian flag always had the Savoy coat of arms in the centre, and it was only after the family were overthrown,and the Italian Republic established in 1946, that the plain \ntricolor was adopted as the national flag."
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Olympic Emblem\n\n 5 Rings Represent 5 Continents\nAfrica, America (North & South),\nAsia, Australia , Europe \n\nThe flag features the emblem of the Olympic Games — five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field. This was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, but gained widespread popularity due to its promotion by Nazi Germany [1]. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1913 edition of Revue Olympique:\n\nThe emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914 ...: five intertwined rings in different colours - blue, yellow, black, green, red - are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. \nIn his article published in the "Olympic Revue" the official magazine of the International Olympic Committee in November 1992, the American historian Robert Barney explains that the idea of the interlaced rings came to Pierre of Coubertin when he was in charge of the USFSA ( Unión des Societes Française de Sports Athletiques): The emblem of the union was two interlaced rings (like the typical interlaced marriage rings) and originally the idea of Austrian psychiatrist Carl Jung because for him the ring meant continuity and the human being. [2]\n\nMoreover, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Argentina, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem. \nThe 1914 Congress had to be suspended due to the outbreak of World War I, but the flag and emblem were later adopted. They would first officially debut at the VIIth Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920.\n\nThe emblem's popularity and widespread use began during the lead-up to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Carl Diem, president of the Organizing Committee of the 1936 Summer Olympics, wanted to hold a torchbearers' ceremony in the stadium at Delphi, site of the famous oracle, where the Pythian Games were also held. For this reason he ordered construction of a milestone with the Olympic rings carved in the sides, and that a torchbearer should carry the flame along with an escort of three others from there to Berlin. The ceremony was celebrated but the stone was never removed. Later, two British authors Lynn and Gray Poole when visiting Delphi in the late 1950´s saw the stone and reported in their "History of the Ancient Games" that the Olympic rings design came from ancient Greece. This has become known as "Carl Diem's Stone". [3] [4]. This created a myth that the symbol had an ancient Greek origin. The rings would subsequently be featured prominently in Nazi images and theatrics in 1936 as part of an effort to glorify the Third Reich and claim a noble and ancient lineage.\n\nThe current view of the International Olympic Committee is that the flag "reinforces the idea" that the Olympic Movement is international and welcomes all countries of the world to join. [5] Some literature, such as "The World Encyclopedia of Flags" by Alfred Znamierowski, state that each ring represent the five continents. Using this scheme, the Americas is viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.\n\nOlympic Rings\n\nThe Olympic Rings were created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first displayed on the Olympic Flag in 1920. The Olympic symbol of five interlocked rings represents the five original continents (or the five continents that are represented in the games): \n\nAfrica\nAmerica (North & South)\nAsia\nAustralia\nEurope \n\nand the meeting of the athl
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its Italian for "Blue", because the team color is blue.
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The five colors on the Olympic rings were chosen because the flags of every nation in the world have at least one of those colors incorporated
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Coloring jerseys according to the nation's flag has always been a convention rather than the rule. Therefore, you will find a few countries here and there that come represented in colors that are nowhere on their flag. Actually I think for teams that have been out there very long there is history and tradition to it like Italy I guess.
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As they finished as the group winners, I believe they will be the home team in the 2nd round so they would/should wear white.\n\nShould be the same colour schemes as we saw for Germany v Ecuador.......white and yellow/blue.
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Each team shall wear its official jersey as declared on the official entry form during a preliminary round competition match.\n\nIf, in the opinion of the referee or match commissioner, the two teams’ colours might cause confusion or prove unsuitable for television broadcast, the host team will wear its official kit while the visiting team will wear either its away kit or a combination of both.
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Lotto is an Italian brand. I think Ukraine wears that brand. Some put first names or last names or just the first name initials then the last name. I think its the players choice.
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First I will like to establish that Puma and Adidas both brands make uniforms from a blueprint that they adapt to the team they make the uniforme, you can see this comparing Argentina, Spain and Germany uniforms. Also in Puma comparing Ivory Coast with Italy uniforms. \n\nSo for originality that leaves us with Nike, Lotto and Umbro.\n\nFor Umbro, England uniform with the red cross above the should looks really terrific, I like the idea of breaking stablish things. \n\nMaraton makes the uniform of Ecuador and it is worth a look\n\nNike do unique uniforms for eight squads, being the better, Mexico, Brazil and Netherlands. The brazil one looks very stilish, but the focus goes to the Netherlands retro one, which I like over the others, also the away uniform looks really good, the only thing to regret is that the number infront will not distinguish very well.\n\nAnd last but no for that worst is Lotto, with Serbia and Montenegro makes a great unifrom, an atonish design, just the drawback here is that Sweden uniform is very likely to this.\n\nFor my personal opinion I will take Netherlands uniform, the retro style around all this mania of new things looks very neat. And as a second choice Serbia and Montenegro.
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The olympic rings is the symbol of the olympics with the five intersecting circles. There are three on the top and two on the bottom. I believe the colors are red, blue, yellow, red, and green. Supposedly each flag in the world has one of those colors. I would go to www.wikipedia.org to find out more.
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The Olympic Charter is the codification of the Fundamental Principles, Rules and Bye-laws adopted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It governs the organisation and running of the Olympic Movement and sets the conditions for the celebration of the Olympic Games.\n\nThe official languages of the IOC are French and English. However, at IOC Sessions, simultaneous translation is also provided into German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.\n\nIn the event of any discrepancy between the French and English in the Olympic Charter or any other IOC document, the French text prevails
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Interestingly enough, they also compete as independant nations in the Commonwealth games, and all other sports. In fact the Olympic team, and the British & Irish Rugby Union team are the only British Sporting teams.\nWell the simple answer is that they wish to represent their own countries (known as the Home nations in UK) normally, but when the first modern Olympic games were held in Athens in 1896, the British Empire was still at it's height, and Union was popular. So the British sent a unified team, and formed the British Olympic Association, which has since always oorganised a British team.
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The Olympics is open to every country in the world so way back when they had chosent the colors for the Olympic flag, they wanted to unite the world. The Olympic flag's colors represent the World united since at least one color on the flag is in any one nation's own flag.
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IT appears backwards becuase when you are running forward with the flag, this is the way it appears. It is placed on the uniform this way as to remind the soldier to always move forward.
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The rings which the color are blue, yellow, black, green, and red are used the Olympics represent the 5 continents. The continents are the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Austrailia.
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Do you mean, the stars above the badge on internationals shirts? if so, each star indicates a world cup win. For example england has one, Italy 3, Uruguay 2 etc