Instead, at every Olympics, organizers use visual symbols known as pictograms to represent each sport. Similar to icons marking bathrooms or no-smoking areas, pictograms work best when they’re ...

Athletes look at a monitor displaying sports pictograms for the Tokyo Olympics at an unveiling ceremony in Tokyo in March 2019. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP via Getty Images Then, in 1972, the Olympics ...

Paris Olympic organisers unveiled the 'visual identity' for the 2024 Games on Wednesday including a purple athletics track and a fresh set of pictograms for Olympic sports. Organising Committee ...

In all, 62 pictograms have been designed for the Olympics and Paralympic Games in Paris. While 47 of them are for each of the 47 sports disciplines in the Olympic programme this time ...

the two hosts gave rapid-fire previews of all 39 sports, focused on structure, format, changes from previous Olympics, top names to know, key story lines and favorites. The previews are split into ...