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Jon Uriarte
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896 and were held every four years except in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the World Wars. 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 atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Jon Uriate, an Argentine former volleyball player, was born on the 15th of October 1961. He currently works as a coach, who had represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning the bronze medal with the Argentinean Men’s Volleyball team. He also obtained the bronze medal at the 1982 World Championship held in Argentina.Uriarte played 8 seasons in Europe, at the Italian A1 first division, in France, and in the Netherlands. He obtained 3 Argentine leagues, and played 11 years for the Argentine national team, including four World Championships and two Olympic Games.
As a head coach, he worked in Azul VC from 1991 to 2001, playing six Argentine League finals and winning the championship four of them, in 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994 and 2000-2001. In 2001 he became Australia's head coach, qualifying the team in 2004 for the first time to the Olympics on their own right. Uriarte also established the first full time Junior Development Program at the Australian Institute of Sport. In 2005 Uriarte moved to Brazil to coach Telemig/Minas Tenis Clube, obtaining the Paulistan League Champion 2005, and leading the team to the first position of the Brazilian Super league regular season in 2006. In April 2006 he was appointed as a new Argentinean head coach.
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