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英语课
By Roger Hsu
Colorado Springs, Colorado
23 October 2007
 

The U.S. Olympic Training Center -- located in Colorado Springs, Colorado -- trains American athletes for the world games and is also where the U.S. Olympic Committee is headquartered.  Producer Roger Hsu visited the training center and has this report narrated 1 by Elaine Lu.


The US Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs sits at the base of the famous Pike's Peak Mountain in Colorado.  It was converted from a former Air Force base, which was closed in 1976. 


Mike English, the Center's director, explains how the idea of an Olympic Training Center was born. "Really, the history of Olympic training centers in the world evolve from a lot of Communist countries, Russia and East Germans, for instance. With their presence and emerging talents that occurred throughout the '50s, '60s and certainly into the '70s, the Western countries got together and really wanted to understand what was going on with the sports powers that were emerging, and they realized that there was a need for more of a centralized training concept. So the United States Olympic committee and the Congress actually asked and put together a plan and strategy to develop the training center concept for the United States."


Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center is one of three Olympic training centers in the U.S., and the most prominent.


English says, "Colorado Springs is the flagship of the training centers. It is presently about 500 beds. It is the largest housing facility we have. It has 27 buildings here in Colorado Springs. We have multi-purpose gyms."


The Training Center boasts two Olympic Sports Centers, each over 5,000 square meters in size.  They can accommodate the training requirements for more than a dozen Olympic and Pan American sports.  The Aquatic 2 Center houses a 50-meter by 25-meter swimming pool with 30 lanes. Some of the best swimmers and water polo players in the U.S. are trained here. 


Kelly Coffman is with media relations for the US Olympic Committee shows off the center. "This is where all the athletes come, train, live, do everything, get their meals.  And computer's provided," she said.


The young athletes train up to twelve hours a day, six days a week.  This intense training produces fierce appetites.


Coffman guides us on a tour. "This is the entrance into the dinning 3 facility. You can see it's self-serve, it's all you can eat, which is good for the athletes who have to carb up and have to eat."


The Center's dining room is open seven days a week from 7:00 in the morning till 8:30 in the evening to provide the fuel needed by the athletes.


The housing, dining and recreational needs for up to 550 coaches and athletes are an enormous expense.  But the Olympic Center is not government funded -- says Doug Ingram, the Managing Director of Performance Services. "We do have our vast majority of our funding, in fact, almost 100 percent of it comes from corporate 4 America as well as American citizens through private donations and things of that nature, through sponsorships."


 The U.S. Olympic Training Center is one of the few in the world that does not receive government funding.  Yet this has not hampered 5 its ability to churn out some of the best athletes to represent the United States in the Olympic games.




v.故事( narrate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Some of the story was narrated in the film. 该电影叙述了这个故事的部分情节。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Defoe skilfully narrated the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on his desert island. 笛福生动地叙述了鲁滨逊·克鲁索在荒岛上的冒险故事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.水生的,水栖的
  • Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.水上运动包括游泳和划船。
  • We visited an aquatic city in Italy.我们在意大利访问过一个水上城市。
vt.喧闹(din的现在分词形式)
  • The cries of his tormentors were still dinning in his ears. 使他痛苦的人们的叫嚣仍然在他的耳际震响。 来自辞典例句
  • The meals in the artistic little dinning-room were pleasant. 在雅致的小餐厅里吃饭是一种享受。 来自辞典例句
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
学英语单词
11-Desmethoxyreserpine
activewear
agnoside
amici compensator
Ankershagen
anti-condensation
attrition milling
ballast pig
be no stranger to
bhv
bilaterally invariant
binary digital signal stream
blue-plate special
book-like
Calvene
cellular conductor
central detection
cicadids
coal ship
demoralizing
diarrhea due to disorder of qi
diductor
diffusion mechanism
disputes process
documentazione
door lintel
Echinoparyphium
edenharterite
Ephedra minima
external insemination
fellow-teachers
fidler
filament cap
first weight
forked stay
fractional doses
gaffi
group product design
Hardoi
have a tongue in one's head
henchwomen
herb Paris
heterodyne buzzer oscillator
highter cut-off frequency
hypo clearing agent
ignis St.Ignatii
indirect cross talk
institute a claim
international analysis code (iac)
interprotein
interpulse period
ischemia heart disease
isogabaculine
items sample
Jaws are wagging.
lead network
linear separation
little green humanoids
long-term astern condition
machine screw
magnetic clutch
multiple-deck press
nonregular solution
Noric
palpbra tertia
picture contrast
plumbophilic
Pregaday
quinnet
rck
recorded-delivery
residual current device functionally independent on line voltage
schoultz
sea powers
sectorial economic geography
similar projective representation
Sinocystis
solar myth
spinella
stage managers
steakley
stop bath
submetering
sweet on
thaliglucine
theory of expectancy
thiania subopress
Thiotiron
Trigonotis laxa
tyred loader
Unatextisporites
unbanishable
unconjugal
unexplosive
variola vaccine
velocity of capillary rise
vitriolizable
Wapanucka
warmly invigorating kidney yang
wedge-shaped blade section
y'all'd
zone shape