By Parke Brewer Lee Lai Shan competes in women's windsurfing, or Mistral, competition. Her first Olympics was in 1992 in Barcelona, where she placed 11th. But she won the gold four years later in Atla

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By Parke Brewer South African Hestrie Cloete has won the last two women's high jump titles at the World Athletics Championships. Now she is looking for gold in the Olympics. The 1.85 meter-tall Hestri

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American track and field star Marion Jones will not duplicate her 2000 Olympic five-medal performance when she competes at this month's Athens Games. Jones only qualified to compete in the women's lon

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As the worlds top athletes competed at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, some robots also showed off their winter sports skills. A ski race involving robots was held recently at the Welli Hilli Park ski area near Pyeongchang. Eight teams built and pro

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(二)月

Sam RB won the competition for the New Zealand Olympic Song earlier this year. It is called Stand Tall which means be confident, be proud of yourself. Sam is a busker who makes her living from composing songs and singing accompanied by her guitar. Sh

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COVENTRY, Britain, July 25 (Xinhua) -- World champions Japan got off to a winning start at the London Olympic Games women's soccer tournament when they beat Canada 2-1 on Wednesday. Japan dominated throughout the match with better individual skills a

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[VOICEOVER] To give foreigners a cultural taste of the Chinese capital during the Olympics, the Beijing Tourism Administration is organizing a homestay program. The government body is now inspecting thousands of applications from potential host fami

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LONDON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chen Ruolin collected a high 422.30 points for the title of women's 10m platform diving at London Olympic Games on Thursday. It is the 200th gold medal China won from all the summer Olympic Games it participated in. Brittan

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MADRID, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Athletic Club Bilbao defender, Mikel San Jose has been forced to withdraw from the Spanish football squad for the 2012 Olympic Games because of an attack of chicken pox. The central defender has to leave the Spain training

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SOFIA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- A former Olympic gold medialist from Bulgaria said Wednesday that he's going to return his medal to pretest the IOC decision of dropping wrestling from the Olympic program. Valentin Yordanov, a seven-time world championship

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LONDON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- London 2012 celebrated another milestone on the Olympic Park as the track in the Olympic Stadium was unveiled on Monday. World record holder and Paralympic gold medallist Dan Greaves, British long jump record holder Chris T

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HAVANA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- All of the 110 Cuban athletes heading to the London 2012 Olympic Games were declared Wednesday to be free of illegal (performance-enhancing) substances by Cuba's National Anti-Doping Brigade. That fact is another expressio

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LOCOG begins Olympic Park handover to London Legacy Development Corporation LONDON, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- The London 2012 Organizing Committee has handed over most of the Olympic Park to the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). The programme o

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LONDON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Midfielder Carli Lloyd scored a brace to inspire the United States to beat Japan 2-1 in the final of the Olympic women's soccer tournament on Thursday. The American outfit, who lost to Japan in last year's world cup final,

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LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China clinched the women's Olympic team table tennis gold medal here Tuesday, after fighting off a strong challenge from Japan to win the final 3-0. It was the 23rd gold medal that China won at the Olympic table tennis comp

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Britain's Olympic boxing champion Adams wins writers' award LONDON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Olympic champion Nicola Adams became the first female boxer to win an award from the Boxing Writers' Club of Britain, it was announced here on Tuesday. The 29-yea

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- American Olympic champions Allyson Felix and Ashton Eaton were named as the winners of the 2012 Jesse Owens Award on Monday for their outstanding performance in the year 2012. Felix enjoyed a successful journey in Lond

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Five U.S. boxing Olympians will make their professional debuts Friday at a casino outside Palm Springs, California. Among the five London Olympic boxers is three-time Olympian Rau'shee Warren. The group returned from Lo

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BERLIN, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Natascha Keller was chosen by the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) as flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London, the DOSB said on Wednesday. Keller is the fifth woman who will lead the Germa

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Britain opened the 2012 Olympic Games Friday with fighter jet flyovers, fireworks, and pageantry highlighting its history from 1896 the start of the modern Games until now. Some 60,000 spectators saw a stand-in for 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth parachu

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