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Jeff Rouse
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.
Jeffrey Norman Rouse was born on February 6, 1970 in Fredericksburg, Virginia and is a former international swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres backstroke at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jeffrey was the student of the Stanford University and also a member of the winning American relay team from on the 4 by 100 meter medley relay.
Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the games, he became second in the 100 metres backstroke, after he had won the event the previous year at the 1991 World Aquatic Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Rouse was the number one in the FINA world rankings for eight successive years in the 100 metres backstroke, and owned the world record in that event from 1991 until 1999. In 2001, he was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. His unique ability of power combined with flexibility has helped him to become exceptional in his own sense.
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