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Steve Lundquist
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.
Steve Lundquist was born on February 20, 1961 is a former swimmer from the United States, who was a member of the Olympic Team when the USA boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. His rise to fame was when in 1984 he won two Olympic Gold medals: in the 100 meter breaststroke, and the 400 meter medley relay.
Lundquist was the first swimmer to break 2 minutes in the 200 yard breaststroke. He won every 100 yard breaststroke event he entered from 1980-1983. At 17 he broke his first world record and in his career he broke world and American records on 15 occasions. He first broke the 100 meter breaststroke world record in 1982 and held it until 1989 with the exception of one month when John Moffet held it. He also held the world record in the 200m in 1978. He set American records in the 100m and 200m breast and the 200m.
Lundquist went on after the 1984 Olympics to spend much of his time volunteering his time for charitable organizations and making appearances on television and in movies. In 1996 when the Olympics were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia he was an Olympic Torch Bearer, the Clayton County Master of Ceremonies for the torch run, and he was also given the honor of being the Olympic Flag Bearer at the 1996 Olympic Games. He currently runs his own business, Digipik, a digital media company in the Stockbridge, Georgia area.
Steve Lundquist Achievements such as U.S. Honorary Olympic Team medalist, wimming, 1980, United States Swimmer of the Year, 1982 Olympia Award, 1983 U.S. Olympic Team doubles gold medalist, swimming, 1984 International Swimming Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990, State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame's youngest inductee, 1990, Olympic flagbearer, torch-runner, emcee, 1996, Voted America's Top Breast-Stroker of the Century By US Swimming, Georgia State Games Cauldron Lighter, 1997.
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