China has named 24,126 primary and middle schools across the country as specialist football schools     1     (lead) youth football development, according to the Ministry of Education. It's required that at least one football class     2     (offer) each week in these schools so that they can encourage their students to     3     (active) participate in football training and matches.

“China aims to have 50,000 schools specializing in youth-football by the end of 2025," said Wang Dengfeng, an official of the Ministry of Education,    4     (add) that to realize this goal, the ministry will take various measures that include building school football fields, training football coaches and providing extra funding and policy support.     5     those measures in schools, 47 football training camps have also been built in     6     effort to promote the sport among young people. And outstanding or     7     (gift) players will also have the chance to join inter-school teams for regional     8     (competition) and even national summer camps.

In the past four years, local education departments have trained about 40,000 football teachers, 8,000 of     9     have obtained coaching certificates. Moreover, the country     10     (step) up its efforts in promoting football in schools since it set up a seven-department joint task force, including the education, sport and finance authorities as well as Chinese Football Association.

For 34 years, thousands of runners     1    （take）on the Marathon des Sables, a 140-mile race through the Sahara.     2    (consider) the world’s most difficult race, des Sables takes place over the course of six days through Morocco’s unforgiving Sahara.

At 46, Amy Palmiero-Winter is not what most picture when they think of     3     athlete, but for her, running has been a lifelong passion: an escape, a comfort, a calling. So, when a careless driver crashed into her motorcycle 25 years ago and damaged her left leg, she did everything she could     4    （save）it.

She couldn’t imagine not running. But three years and 25 operations later it became obvious that her leg would never     5    （true）recover. But hardships couldn’t keep her from running. In fact, they may have pushed her     6    （close）towards it. “When something bad happened to me, I went out for a run. It kept me from any darkness.” Palmiero-Winter said. After recovering from her amputation, she tried running again. Struggling     7    low-tech artificial legs, in 2004 she placed second in the Silver Strand Half Marathon. Today, she holds 11 world records and countless awards,     8    （include）the James E. Sullivan Award and others,     9    recognized her as the world’s top amateur athlete nearly a decade ago.

But as her latest     10    （achieve）at the Marathon des Sables shows, she’s nowhere near done.

Sun Yang wins men's 400m freestyle in FINA Champions Swim Series on January 15 in Shenzhen. “My 400m free remains smooth all the time, showing that my training is    1    (effect). My goal this year is    2     (win) at the Olympic Games," said Sun, who lost to Rapsys     3    0. 03 in 200m freestyle on Tuesday. The world top-class athlete     4     (perfect) showed his dominant power in the 400m freestyle event in front of all his home fans,       5     (suggest) that he is aiming high for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games.

Liu Xiang bagged her second gold medal in the 50m freestyle in 24. 04. “I got    6     cold after I arrived here three days ago,       7     I did not expect to win with a time equaling my personal best," said Liu. So far, China       8     (collect) 9 gold medals as the biggest winner.

According to FINA official website, the brand-new “FINA Champions Swim Series" is since 2019 a circuit     9     (gather) the top athletes of the sport, and it has an original     10     (compete) format including finals with only four swimmers.