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Kim Nam-Soon
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.
Archery has become an inseparable part of the Olympics. It is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. A person who is fond of or an expert at archery is called a toxophilite, or more often, an Archer. Kim Nam-Soon is one such archer who was born on May 7, 1980 and was a member of the South Korean Olympic archery team. She won both, a gold medal for the team and a silver medal in the individual event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Kim Nam-Soon earned a reputed position for herself and her nation in the Olympic history by compiling a silver medal. She strived hard, regardless of the painstaking conditions in her overall athletic career. She was not only a potential player but was an athlete with unique features and tremendous patriotism for her nation.
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