Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, 18, is one of the superstars of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu decided     1     (compete) for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Just two     2     (month) later, she bagged her first gold medal for China at the Australia New Zealand Cu. Her strength     3     (continue) to grow as she won one bronze and two gold medals at the International Ski Federation(FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in March.

People say she is    4     (talent). But Gu says that talent counted for “only 1 percent” of her wins. “    5    counts is my hard work”, Gu adds. While going to school in San Francis-co, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours    6     (go) to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill to practice skiing.

Gu says she wants to encourage more girls in China to try skii ng and other extreme sports, many of which only     7     (know) there for 20 years, according to the Olympics website. She says skiing gives her “freedom and creativity”,    8     (especial) when she perfectly controls her body and does tricks that others cannot do.     9    February 8th, she claimed her first Olympic gold medal in the women’s freeski big air of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as a full-time athlete. “I’m not skiing just for medals,” Gu once said. “What’s more important is to bring out my own style, enjoy the game     10     love the sport.”

On Feb 22nd, 2018, Chinese skater Wu Dajing became the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic short track gold medal,     2    (claim) China’s first gold medal at the Pyeongchang Games. And on Nov 11, Wu Dajing, 24, set     3    new world record. It took him just 39.505 seconds to finish the men’s 500-meter race at the 2018 Short Track World Cup,     4    took place in Salt Lake City, US.

Shaoang Liu, who competed against WU at the World Cup,     5    (shake) his head in disbelief after the race. “It’s     6    (true) lucky to have been in a world record race,” Liu said. “The rest of us are all on a certain level but Wu is just, like, ‘up here’.” Indeed, every time Wu skates, he leaves his     7    (compete) behind within seconds. Wu is untouchable, not only for dominating his sport, but also for his unusual     8     (high) (182cm, tall for a short tracker).

Wu owes his success     9    his self-discipline. He started to skate at the age of 10. He got up at 4 am every day to practice. He never     10    (eat) meat or has carbonated drinks, even though he loves cola very much. Only once has Wu broken his self-made rule once-just after his win at the Winter Olympics.

There are three children in Bryant’s family. Kobe Bryant is the       1     (young) child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him       2       a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At       3     age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters moved to Italy,       4     his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in       5     (Italy). At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he     6    (stay)in Italy, he would have     7    (stick)with soccer and would have tried to become a professional soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. In the Philadelphia suburb of lower Merion high school, a spectacular high school career brought national     8    (recognize). Although his SAT score of 1080 guaranteed him various basketball scholarships from top universities, the 17-year-old made a controversial     9     (decide)to enter the NBA     10     (direct).

Chinese tennis legend Li Na will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.     1     (amazing), Li is the first Asian player     2     (receive) the sport’s ultimate honor. She was joined by Mary Pierce and Yevgeny Kafelnikov for the halls Class of 2019, which     3     (announce)at the Australian Open last month. Li retired in 2014 because of recurring knee injuries, eight months after winning that year’s Australian Open and     4     (rise) to a career-high second in the WTA ranking. Her first Grand Slam trophy came at the 2011 French Open,     5     she defeated four top-10     6     (opponent) along the way. To     7     (she) credit, those on-court achievements, along with L’s engaging     8     (personal), helped spur interest in tennis at home in China.

“I have loved seeing the sport grow in China,” Li said in     9     statement, “and I’m proud to be part of that history.” The formal induction ceremony will be held     10     July 20th in Rhode Island.