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Teresa Motos
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 at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Teresa Motos Izeta was born on December 29, 1963 in Guipuzcoa, a province of northern Spain. She is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the team that surprisingly won the Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil in Barcelona, Spain. Motos also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, where Spain finished in the 8th and last position.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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