VOA标准英语2012--Female Olympians Get Motivated for 2016 Games
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Female Olympians Get Motivated for 2016 Games
Ije Enwerem has been throwing the discus for four years. She's thought to be a contender 1 for the next summer Olympics, in Rio, four years from now.
Being female, she says, has made her work harder. "No-one ever really pays attention to throwers, let alone to the women, so you always want to be as good as the men to prove that there is talent out there," she said.
Enwerem is one of a group of young athletes who went to a motivational talk in East London, where this year's Olympics are taking place.
The speaker was Teresa Edwards, a four-time Olympic champion in women's basketball and Team USA's chief of mission.
She says in the past women were shunned 2 from the sporting world. "Participation 3 was thought to kill us or to take us backwards 4 or to threaten our abilities to have babies and things like that," she explained. "That's where we have come from in the past. It's not about that anymore. We have definitely proven that fact."
But today women are competing in every Olympic sport. And many countries are sending more women than men to the Games.
Edwards says doors have been opened to female athletes that were often closed in the past.
It's progress, she says, but there are still some girls who are left behind. "It's sad to think that we live in a day and age that someone is actually telling a little girl that she can't participate in sport for whatever reason, I don't know what that would be," Edwards stated. "So all we have to do is continue to do what we do as female athletes -- our participation, be an example and a role model and hopefully they will follow and know that all is well."
For Enwerem, she says it's her female sports idols 5 that keep her focused and will help her make it, she hopes, to the 2016 Games.
- a contender for a gold medal in the Olympics 奥运金牌的争夺者
- She has recently become a strong contender for the gold medal . 她最近已经成为一个金牌的强有力争夺者。
- She was shunned by her family when she remarried. 她再婚后家里人都躲着她。
- He was a shy man who shunned all publicity. 他是个怕羞的人，总是避开一切引人注目的活动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
- The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。
- He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
- All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。