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Daniel Mensch
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.
His full name is Daniël Theodoor Mensch. Daniel was born on October 4, 1978 in Sliedrecht. He is a Dutch athlete who won the silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics for rowing as a member of the 8-man Dutch rowing team. He is also, as of 2005, a sixth year medical student at the Universiteit Maastricht.
He began rowing in 1997 as a member of the Maastrichtse Studenten Roeivereniging Saurus and, in his second season on the team, the Olympic Development Program of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Roeibond Royal Netherlands Rowing Association selected him for the Dutch national 8-man student team. In 2000, he was, along with the Dutch team, selected as World Champions at the FISU, Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire World Championships in Poznan, Poland. Mensch's professional career did indeed begin in 1997. However, it was on the shores of one Loch Doon in Donegal, Republic of Ireland that his real talent for rowing took shape.
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