China’s genius Pan Zhanle has put the swimming world on notice after breaking the men’s 100m freestyle Asian record on the opening day of the National Championships. The 18-year-old,    1    finished fourth in the event at the 2022 World Championships last year,    2    (clock) a time of 47.22 seconds in Hangzhou on Monday, 0.34 seconds faster than the previous record, set by South Korean Hwang Sunwoo at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

“I’m quite surprised by my    3    (perform) today,”said Pan. “I never expected that I would be able to complete the race in just 47.22 seconds.”

The result means Pan has become the 11th    4    (fast) men’s 100m freestyler of all time and removed current world record holder David Popovici to claim the top spot in the latest world rankings.

When    5    (ask) about his future ambitions, Pan said, “As    6    athlete, my final goal is to reach the very top echelons(梯队) of my sport. I hope one day I will have the chance    7    (compete) against Popovich and see how I measure up against    8    (he).” “Looking ahead, I will continue to work hard and struggle for success,    9    the goal of achieving great results at the upcoming Asian Games, and    10    (ultimate) pushing myself to even reater heights at the Paris Olympics.”

Hockey (冰球) goalkeepers are the rare athletes in team sports who can try to show their history, family and personality through the     1     (choose) of clothes. That’s no different at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

China’s goalkeeper Zhou Jiaying caught the attention of the world when she showed     2     with her dragon-themed pads(护膝) at the hockey competition in Beijing.

“She always     3     (want) to honor her Chinese heritage,” explained Chris Joswiak, who has helped to design the pads for     4     26-year-old goalkeeper.

Her notice to Joswiak and his team read, “I hope that immediately we Chinese people see the pads, they think, ‘That’s the Gold Dragons in the Forbidden City!’”

Zhou Jiaying helped create the pads by     5     (send) Joswiak several examples of Chinese-style dragons that could convey     6     she was looking for in her pads.

The design team worked up multiple     7     (sample) for her before she finally approved the one that she wore at the Olympic competitions.

To meet her deadline, the pads that     8     (typical) take about 8 to 10 weeks to build     9     (make) for her in less than two weeks.

Wearing her dragon pads, Zhou Jiaying stopped 22 of 23 shots in China’s win over Denmark on Friday. The Chinese team is scheduled     10     (face)Japan on Sunday.

Yang Yang, World Anti-Doping (反兴奋剂) Agency (WADA) vice president, has confirmed that she is ready     1     (participate) in the election of the position for another three-year term (2023-2025) next week.

In 2020, Yang,     2     is China’s first ever gold medalist in a Winter Olympics, began her role as WADA vice president. So far, in her career as an athlete, Yang     3     (win) two gold medals, two silver and one bronze for short track speed skating at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Nagano and Turin.

Yang stressed the importance of educating from the very beginning, not just on matters of “detection and punishment”, but also on “prevention and support”. Yang said: “I hold the     4     (believe) that most of athletes start out clean and wish to be     5     clean sporting champion. No child dreams of becoming a champion by breaking the rules. If     6     (receive) early, the anti-doping education will keep them that way. ”

Looking back over the past three years, Yang believes that WADA has been undergoing a series of governance reforms, including strengthening athletes’ representation within the agency, pushing the boundaries of     7     (science) and technological advancement, and     8     (cooperate) with all stakeholders across the world.

“Although I retired many years ago, I still think like an athlete. My top priority is placed on the athletes,     9     it always will be, ” Yang told Xinhua     10     (firm) in an exclusive interview.

People have competed in hundreds of different sports for thousands of years. Sports events give us the chance to see many living legends     1     have the mental     2    (strong) to focus     3     what is most important. They believe their secret to success is learning from their     4    (fail). They set     5     good example to us not only in how to play sports well but also in how to live life well.

Benjamin Alexander is Jamaica’s first Olympic alpine skier (高山滑雪运动员), but he was a late     1     (develop). The 38-year-old only discovered his love     2     the sport at 32. “I never skied before at that time,” Alexander said. “They     3     (fly) us up in the helicopters at the top of the mountain to meet the skiers...”

For more than two years, Benjamin Alexander pursued a dream of becoming the first person     4     (present) Jamaica at the Winter Olympics. For him, competing in the Olympics is something he never thought about as a kid. He grew up in England and began working as a DJ as     5     17-year-old teenager, but he stopped doing so as he grew tired of the violent scenes at local nightclubs. After     6     (study) engineering at University College London, he moved to Hong Kong. Then Alexander booked a month-long trip to ski,     7     he met former Europa Cup lever ski racer, Gordon Gray, who criticized Alexander’s technique but said that he was     8     (absolute) fearless.

Gray added: “If you’re afraid you’re never going to get any work     9     (do), even with all the technique in the world.     10     if you’re fearless, then we can teach you technique and I think there’s a chance.”