Olympic Games Australia and Europe). The coloured version of the rings—blue, yellow, black, green, and red—over a white field forms the Olympic flag. These colours were chosen because every nation had at least one of them on its national flag. The flag was adopted in 1914 but flown for the first time only at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. It has since been hoisted during each celebration of the Games. The Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius", a Latin expression meaning "Faster, Higher, Stronger" was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 and has been official since 1924. The motto was
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky in producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios, a converted Amish barn in Cassadaga, New York, through May the following year. Bassist Tim Nordwind described the process of the studio sessions as a midpoint between the slick production work done on "OK Go" and the emphasis on live takes with the recording of "Oh No". "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky"'s accompanying booklet presents the album as a concept based on an unnamed passage from "The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky" by General A.J. Pleasonton. The title of this