The pictograms that can be found at the Olympic Games are mainly used for their simplicity and clarity. Every year the sports that are included in the Olympic list are becoming more and more, and the pictograms, oddly enough, do not always become clearer and better. Nevertheless, pictograms have been used for a long time and no one is going to abandon them, primarily because of their universality and internationality.

Pictograms were first used to represent sports in 1948 in London. All subsequent host countries decided to use this tradition, coming up with a new set of pictograms each time.

In this collection, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the process of changing the pictograms used in the Summer Olympics since 1964: