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Steven Bradbury
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.
Steven Bradbury was born on October 14, 1973 in Camden, Sydney. He is a former Australian short track speed skater. Bradbury is most well known for his memorable and unlikely gold medal win in the men's short track 1000 metres at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games, due to three unlikely events occurring.
In the quarterfinals, Bradbury thought himself eliminated. He finished third, but Marc Gagnon was disqualified, thus allowing Bradbury to advance to the semifinals. In his semifinal, Bradbury was in last place, well off the pace of the medal favourites. However, the other competitors in the semifinal all crashed into each other, allowing him through to the final. Again well off the pace in the final, once again all four of Bradbury's competitors, Apolo Ohno, Ahn Hyun-Soo, Li Jiajun and Mathieu Turcotte crashed out at the final corner, leaving a shocked Bradbury to take the gold medal, the first for Australia or any Southern Hemisphere country in an Olympic Winter Games event.
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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