A Chinese swimmer has made history again. Last week, Qin Haiyang,    1     won all the 23 gold medals in the men’s breaststroke (蛙泳),     2     (award) as the Best Male Swimmer of the Year 2023 of World Aquatics in Budapest, Hungary. This    3     (recognize) came just a day after he secured the Swimming World Cup Overall Male Award.     4     (amazing), at the championships in Fukuoka, the 24-year old broke the Asian record five times and became the first swimmer in history    5     (earn) all three breaststroke titles at a single edition of the event.

Chinese swimming in men’s breaststroke events was hardly talked about    6    the sudden appearance of Qin. Before him, China’s    7     (late) achievement in the men’s 100m breaststroke even was made by Qi Lieyun when he beat the word record in 1957. Qin’s winning in Fukuoka has filled a 66-year gap    8    China’s history. In breaststroke    9    almost all the movements are underwater, swimmers required high technical skills. “Even    10    slight difference in the angle of your palms is likely to affect your speed in the water,” Qin told Jimu News.

As an outstanding American gymnast (体操运动员), Simone Biles has won more medals     1     any other gymnast in American history. Although Biles has made great achievements in sports, she had never received     2     college education before. But it has changed. Biles is a college student now.

Biles had planned to go to the University of California Los Angeles,     3     she could go into a classroom and listen to lessons in a traditional way, but her busy life made it nearly impossible     4     (study) full-time at a university. So she     5     (decide) to take some classes at the University of the People, an online university, which     6     (set) up by Shai Reshef, an Israeli-born businessman. It offers degree programs of different levels. Now Biles is working hard to get her first degree, and she is     7     (satisfy) with the online education though she hasn't had a traditional school experience since she went to high school. She was home-schooled during her high school years to save time for her gymnastic     8     (train) .

The school's nontraditional methods are     9     (particular) fit for Biles, and her hard-working spirit     10     (shape) her gymnastic career will help her in her studies as well.

    1       (bear) in Jilin, a northeastern Chinese province where temperatures can remain below freezing for half of the year, Su Yiming first     2     (step) on a snowboard around age three, with the support of his parents. By six, Su was leaving his parents behind in the snow when they snowboarded together. His wonderful performance on the snow was     3     pushed him under the spotlight in 2014, after the celebrated director Tsui Hark cast him in his action movie The Taking of Tiger Mountain, after watching a video of young Su skiing. In the movie, Su helps lead a team of soldiers to     4       (safe) after they lose their way on a snowy mountain. He then appeared in several more television dramas, one of them alongside Xiao Zhan.

In 2018, Su Yiming, a 14-year-old native of northeastern China,     5     (face) with a difficult decision: Pursue a     6     (promise) career as an actor, or go all in on snowboarding, in a country where most people had never seen a snowboard. At the time,Su was fast becoming     7     household name in China’s film industry. But     8     the 2022 Winter Olympics approaching, the teenager saw an opportunity. He decided to     9       (temporary) put his acting career on hold. Three days short of his 18th birthday, Su took gold in the big air snowboarding event,     10     (write) history for the Olympic host nation by winning the country’s first gold medal in the event.

The ancient Chinese martial art(武术) tai chi has     1     (increasing) become popular among New Yorkers, thanks to the efforts         2     (make) by former world martial art champion Chen Sitan. From five-year-old kids to the elderly in their 70s, people from different cultural backgrounds in New York have been attracted to the martial art.

Chen started learning martial art at the age of six. By the age of 30 when he ended his athletic career, he     3     (win) 32 gold medals in Chinese and international competitions. After     4     (train) athletes in sports teams for several years, Chen decided to come to the United States in 2003     5     (bring) Chinese culture to more people around the world through tai chi. “Tai chi is not only about     6     (compete); it means much more,” said Chen. This gentle form of exercise helps keep     7     (strong) and balance, and can be     8     activity suitable for almost everyone.

Although tai chi is already getting popular in fast-paced New York City and neighboring areas, Chen is not satisfied     9     the achievements he has made. He is developing a training program through     10     his school could train more excellent teachers.

For followers of freestyle skiing and fashion alike, the buzz surrounding Winter Olympian Eileen Gu at this year’s Games has become     1     hit.

Gu’s gold-medal     2     (perform) in the competition pushed her into the global spotlight on Tuesday, sparking     3     a craze in China that social media platform Weibo crashed. But Gu has spent years establishing herself as both a top athlete and a     4     (huge) reliable model.

Having switched her sporting devotion     5     her mother’s home country in 2019, Gu has also got her place in Chinese TV ads. JD. com is among the famous brands that she     6     (model) for in recent months. In fact, she arrived in Beijing with more than 20 commercial partnerships,     7     (range) from Beats to Cadillac.

“The fashion world has helped balance my training,” Gu said. “Just like skiing, modeling     8     (require) creativity, confidence and the ability     9     (learn) and adapt. The transition between modeling and skiing becomes a practice for each other,     10     helped me feel more motivated in each area.”

Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu was already a     1     (win) on the FIS World Cup circuit before competing at the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) 2020. After winning YOG gold in both halfpipe and bigair, the 17-year-old has     2     (firm) established herself as one of the rising stars in the sport, and is now hoping to inspire others.

If I'm 80 years old and looking back at my life, I don't think     3     number of medals is going to matter as much as memories of reading messages from young girls     4     (say) that I was the one who inspired them to start skiing, or who showed them that it was possible to do bigger tricks and that     5     (woman) could do it too.

To be able to inspire them-that's a really big thing for me. And I also just want     6     (enjoy) the experience. I have a lot of things going on in my life,     7     I think it's important to be able to enjoy the road that I feel very     8     (luck)to be on. Not many people have the chance to compete at such a high-level event in front of the world. So, I'm really, really thankful     9     all the chances I've had. And my     10     (big) ambition is just to make a difference and to be able to use those chances for the greater good.”