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Jan Bos
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.
Speed skating or speedskating is a form of ice skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance as quickly as possible on ice skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, inline speed skating, and quad speed skating.
Jan Bos was born on March 29, 1975 in Harderwijk. In the Netherlands team, he is a long track speedskater and sprint cyclist. In 1998, he became the world champion sprint and won the silver medal that year for the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano. In 2002, he won the silver medal on that same distance in Salt Lake City.
In 2004, he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, in the team sprint track cycling event, together with his brother Theo Bos, who won the silver at the individual sprint, and Teun Mulder. The Dutch finished sixth after being knocked out by Japan.
He possessed the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra effort. He never lost hope in himself and always strived hard to accomplish his ambition.
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