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Ales Valenta
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 at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Ales Valenta was born on February 6, 1973, in Sumperk, Czechoslovakia. His height is 179 centimeters and weight 75 kilograms and is a Czech freestyle skier who participates in aerials. On February 19, 2002, he won the Winter Olympics gold medal in the freestyle aerials competition. In the second round, he jumped the most difficult of jumps, a triple tumble jump with five twists. He became the first professional ski acrobat in the Czech Republic to jump a triple flip over snow and a quadruple flip over water.
At the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 he came in 4th, and in 1999 and 2000 he won silver medal at the World Cup. Since the summer of 2001, he has been part of the international Team Europe together with his trainer, Pavel Landa. His superior approach and devotion to the game which made him stand out from the other players.
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