Theme Week, Part Gymnastics

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents 
US Olympian or Foreign Head of State Week! 

Day 7: Joachim Gauck


Onward, upward, and more strongward...or whatever the Latin phrase is...as Olympic Theme Week continues on into Day 7.  


We're forging ahead in our US Olympian or Foreign Head of State week with the results from Day 6.  We introduced you to Sergio Mattarella and asked you to decide if he was a member of the 2016 US Olympic team, or a another nation's leader.  Well, in the case of Mr. Mattarella...he will be rooting for Team Italy while they are battling it out in Rio, as he is the current President of Italy!

A long time member of the Italian government, (since his election to Parliament in 1993), Mattarella was elevated to the position of President of the Italian Republic on January 31st 2015.  He succeeded Giorgio Napolitano, who had become the longest serving President in the history of the Republic, and is the only Sicilian to have held the post. 

Mattarella has the honor of presiding over the 2016 Italian Olympic team, which currently stands in 7th place overall with a 23 medal haul, including an impressive 8 Gold.  Italy's next great chance to take home a medal comes later on today, as their Mixed Nacra 17 currently stands second heading into the medal race.  That's a type of catamaran, for those of who less familiar with competitive sailing vessels. 

As they often say around Olympic times, "Citius, Altius, Fortius" and we move onto Day 7 of the Theme Week with Joachim Gauck.  Is Gauck a 2016 US Olympian, or the leader of another country bent on Olympic Gold?