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Guy Butler
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprise of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Guy Montagu Butler, born on August 25, 1899 in Harrow, London, was a British athlete and winner of gold medal in 4 by 400 meters relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics. At the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, Butler won the silver medal in the individual 400 meters and anchored the British 4 by 400 meters relay team to a gold medal in 3 minutes 22 seconds and 2 milliseconds. At the 1924 Summer Olympics, Butler won bronze in the 400 meters and again anchored the British 4 by 400 meters relay team, this time winning bronze in 3 minutes 17 seconds and 4 milliseconds. In his final Olympics in 1928 he reached the quarterfinal of the 200 meters.
Butler also won the British AAA championships in 440 yard in 1919 and in 220 yard in 1926. He also ran the 300 yard world record of 30.6 in 1926. After his athletics career, Butler was a schoolmaster, then an athletics journalist and was a pioneer of filming athletes in action.
With all his dedication and devotion in his play he achieved many goals in his overall athletic career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra hard work and efforts. He never lost hope in himself and always fought hard to achieve his goal. He is still remembered as one of the best athletes in the history of Olympics.
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