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Stein Eriksen
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.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.
Stein Eriksen was born on December 11, 1927. He is a former Norwegian-American professional alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist. Eriksen won the gold medal in the Giant Slalom event at the 1952 Winter Olympics, which were held in Oslo, Norway. He also won a bronze medal in the Slalom race.
Eriksen was the first skier from outside the Alps to win an Olympic men's alpine gold medal. Some of his other accomplishments include the fact that he is credited with devising aerials, a freestyle skiing event, and he helped revolutionize the world of alpine skiing, especially in America, where he has served as a ski instructor at many different ski schools. For his Olympic medals, Eriksen earned the Holmenkollen Medal in 1952.
He is currently director of skiing at the Deer Valley resort in Utah, and also serves as host of the Stein Eriksen Lodge, a ski lodge in Park City, Utah. He was a strong determined player who urged and inculcated a team spirit in all professional athletes of his nation. He is still respected as a high caliber player who can build the professionalism in sport to lead his nation at the foremost position.
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