VOA标准英语2013--Burmese Skateboarders Lobby for Official Recognition
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(三月)
Burmese Skateboarders Lobby for Official Recognition
The Speed Ring Skate Club, comprise of 20 young Burmese with a passion for skateboarding in a country where skateboards are rare.
The skaters first learned their tricks at this park. But four years ago it was destroyed, for reasons that are not entirely 2 clear. Now, these skaters have a choice of perfecting their skills on poorly paved and crowded streets or making a five hour journey to the remote capital, Naypyitaw, where Japanese donors 3 built a skate park hundreds of kilometers from the nearest skaters.
Akar Bo says the distance means he rarely visits. "We need a good place to skateboard. They should have built this in Rangoon," he added.
The group has taken matters into their own hands, making a film about their cause that they hope will win over officials - and draw more aspiring 4 skaters to their ranks.
Filmmaker Ali Drummond, a skateboarder from Britain who was saddened by the loss of the Rangoon skate park, says the film has helped them believe their goal is achievable.
"This is Myanmar [Burma]. No one is going to sponsor us as skateboarders. And, in the past, no one has shown any interest in them. In fact, they'd actually just shown hostility 5 toward them as a group of people," Drummond said. "So they had no belief in themselves that anyone was going to help them from Myanmar. So I think this film essentially 6 changed that to a certain extent."
To get approval to build a new skate park, the skaters must become an officially recognized sporting federation 7 by the sports ministry 8.
Former sports ministry director general Aung Din 1 is already a supporter of their cause. "Of course skateboarding needs a park, so they can exercise and participate and become in fellowship and meet each other. But, first of all we need the blessing 9 from the sports ministry so they can help us out," explained Aung Din.
The skaters hope to win permission for at least a temporary park when Burma hosts the Southeast Asian Games in December. There, the exposure could help persuade officials and introduce a new generation of Burmese to the sport.
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