08Watching the Olympic Games GLOSSARY opening ceremony a special event that begins the Olympics or a conferenceor sports competition, often with music, dancing, and other shows* Did you see those beautiful fireworks at the opening ceremony last year?

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Special Olympics Show Competitors' Skill, Determinatio n 特殊奥林匹克运动会展示运动员技巧与决心 LOS ANGELES From table tennis to handball. Special Olympics athletes have given it their best, and some will take home medals. Irish at

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约1/3运动员曾在重大运动赛事中通过服用药品作弊 An article in the British newspaper The Sunday Times claims that around a third of the world's top athletes at a major event cheated by using drugs. The newspaper says a study was car

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Heres another episode requested by some of our listeners. The athletes out there were curious about sports in Canada. What sports do people play? Which sports are popular to watch? Is hockey really as popular as people think? In this episode, Harp an

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Our subject this week is sports doping. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Sports have long been part of popular culture. In the United States, some pl

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Technology Report - Technology Designed to Take Paralympians to New Levels 科技报道 - 科技引领残奥会进入新高度 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 The Paralympic Games in

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The four athletes Gabon sent to this year's Olympic Games in Beijing were accompanied by a delegation reported to be comprised of over 60 officials. The athletes won no medals. Brent Latham reports from our West and Central Africa bureau in Dakar, s

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Hitlers Olympic Village Faces Conservation Battle The 1936 Berlin Olympics gave Adolf Hitler an ideal showcase for Nazi propaganda. Director Leni Riefenstahls famous film of the Games, Olympia, immortalized the sporting prowess and political context

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High-Tech Edge Sharpens Olympic Games At the very first Olympic Games, in 1896, an American won a gold medal in the pole vault event after jumping 3.30 meters using a wooden pole. Four years ago in Beijing, an Australian won gold in the same event wi

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As the world focuses on the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, an athlete-based, international humanitarian organization is using the spotlight to help promote sports in the poorest parts of the planet. The organization, called Right To Play, help

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Study Examines Racial Bias in Sports Reporting 研究探讨在体育报道的种族偏见 New research says African-American athletes are more likely to be portrayed negatively in the media than white athletes. The findings appear in a new book, enti

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Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home ALLISON AUBREY, HOST: Eighty years ago this month, the U.S. competed in the Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER #1: On the

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'Carry On' Tells The Story Of Unlikely Bond Between 2 Athletes That Changed 3 Lives RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It was February of 2009, and Lisa Fenn was working as a features producer for ESPN. Her dad knew she was always looking for a good story, so when

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By Steve Schy Turin 11 February 2006 The 2006 Winter Olympics opened in the Northern Italian city of Turin Friday night under a nearly full moon. As VOA's Steve Schy reports, the theme of these Olympi

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The Commonwealth Games finished last night. India will be pleased that there were no major problems from terrorism or anything else. India was second with the number of medals and this is the best result ever for India. Australia was first, well ahea

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The World Rowing Championships started today at Lake Karapiro on the Waikato River. This is the first time in 32 years that New Zealand has held this event. 50 countries have sent teams to compete during the eight days of the championships. There are

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President George Bush welcomed the U.S. Olympic team to the White House Tuesday for a celebration of its accomplishments at the Beijing Olympics. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports hundreds of athletes traveled to Washington for the event. President Bush g

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In October, the 14th Commonwealth Games will be held in Delhi, India. This event is similar to the Olympic Games and the Asian Games but smaller, as it is only for teams from the Commonwealth of Nations countries (originally the British Empire). It i

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China is following its successful hosting of the Olympics with a lower-key opening ceremony for the Paralympics, an international sporting event for handicapped athletes, that runs until September 17. 继中国成功举办奥运会后,残疾人奥运

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Topics: Ask an American: Concussions Affect U.S. Teen Athletes; customer versus client; overwhelming; exciting; discussion on/about Words: ref time out trainer concussion face down to work (someone) match whistle fogginess to think straight nausea di

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