August 9 - Olympic Rings

Gergő-ish

... the six colors [including the flag's white background] combined in this way reproduce the colors of every country without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tri-colors of France and Serbia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Hungary, and the yellow and red of Spain, are placed together with the innovations of Brazil or Australia, with old Japan, and with new China. Here is truly an international symbol.

~ Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games

I got a little distracted watching the Olympics and I didn't get a chance to build what I originally planned.  We are a few days into the games and already records have been smashed, the next generation of heroes have staked their claims on being the fastest or best in the world.  After some amazing swimming, USA is tied with China at 5 gold medals each - and Australia following closely behind.

Here is the current metal rankings:

Country	Gold	Total
USA	5	19
China	5	13
Japan	3	10
Russia	2	10
Italy	3	9
Australia	4	7

Sergey Loginov has an Olympic ring video companion to his torch.  This entry is "roughly based" on that.   I tried building this while watching synchronized diving, and this is one not designed for "winging it".  It's wonky looking, I should have measured. Thankfully Gergő Csatai just recently posted one more conducive to winging, similar to the top image.  That one was built during a few swimming finals. Finally David Lima showed a technique for making the smaller ring/buttons at the jam.  But I will talk more about him soon.  Now I sleep.

Sergey-ish

Do you know how to inflate these things?