Born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, Simone Biles has been known     1     a champion in her sport. She and her sister, Adria,    2    (raise) by their grandfather Ron and grandmother Nellie, after their mother's struggle with substance abuse problem.

Ron and Nellie eventually     3     (official) adopted the two girls, and Biles calls her grandmother Nellie has been a constant source of support through Biles' rise in the world of     4     (compete) athletics.

Biles became     5     (interest) in gymnastics at age six during a day-care field trip to Bannon's Gymnastix, and she remained there for 11 years under the     6    (direct) of her coach, Aimee Boorman.

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first female U. S. gymnast     7     (win) four gold medals at a single Games. She was given     8     honor of being the Team USA flag bearer during the Olympics' closing ceremony.

There were high     9     (expectation) for Biles as she entered the 2020 Tokyo Games,    10     were delayed until 2021. However, she withdrew from most events due to a medical condition.

There are many world-famous sports stars. But I’d like to show my     1     (admire) to Lang Ping. Lang Ping used     2     (be) a player, who brought honor and glory to her country and then     3     (become) a coach. When preparing for the 2015 World Cup, one of the best players got     4     (injure) and the team captain was seriously ill. The team was at a risk of     5     (fall) apart.     6    , Lang Ping didn’t lost heart. She faced difficulties     7     (brave) and finally the team won the world champions. After the match, she said the secret     8     her team’s success was their persistence and determination.     9     she said really makes sense. Nothing is     10     (important) than your courage and determination if you want to succeed.

CHEN Lijun snatches gold in Men's 67kg Weightlifting. Till now, five years after     1     (force) to withdraw with leg cramps from Rio 2016, CHEN Lijun of the People's Republic of China     2     (crown) he Olympic champion in the weightlifting men's 67kg event at Tokyo 2020 with a total lift of 332kg.

It     3     (come) down to the final lit, with Chen lifting 187kg — an Olympic record — in the clean and jerk to beat Colombia's Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano by one kilogram. “I feel that it's very difficult, very hard to be in Tokyo 2020. I have many different     4     (feeling) because for a long time I've been struggling and working hard. This year is quite exciting and     5     (predict),” Chen said. “I'm very happy to win this gold medal and bring honour to my country and family.”

Chen, a four-time world champion, gave China their second weightlifting gold of the evening after Li Fiban won the men's 6lkg. Mosquera Lozano was in line     6     the gold medal after a mammoth total lift of 331kg—    7     Olympic record before Chen's final attempt.

Mosquera Lozano said, “I am very proud to win for Colombia and for my family but I understand     8     China won today, they are very strong in weightlifting. It's been wonderful to fight     9     my Chinese opponent.” I'm very happy for him and my Italian colleague but let's hope we can get more medals in the future.” Bronze went to Italy's Mirko Zanni,     10     despite missing his attempt at 172kg, went on to left a personal best of 177kg on his final attempt in the clean and jerk for a total lift of 322kg.

Chinese shooter Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the women’s 10m air rifle (气步枪) on Saturday. Yang was born in 2000 in Yangjianong,     1     small village in Ningbo. In 2011, she     2     (select) among the shooting team of Ningbo Sports School,     3     she started her shooting career. In 2019, Yang became a member of the national shooting team.

Yu Lihua, Yang’s first shooting coach at Ningbo Sports School, said in an     4     (excite) voice, “It is the first time that my student has won a gold medal in the Olympic Games. I’m so     5     (pride) of Yang Qian. Athletes in the Olympic Games should not only have great skills     6     also adjust their own mood to deal with anxieties. Yang Qian has such good sportsmanship     7     (control) herself well under pressure.” Yang’s mother, smiled through tears as her daughter won the     8     (compete). Zhu Xiaomei, her instructor back then, said, “Yang’s success will encourage both teachers and students     9     (great). As long as they work hard, they     10     (be) the top talents in their own field, like what Yang has achieved.”

Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan won the gold medal for the women’s 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday.

Not only is Quan the youngest     1     (compete) in the women’s diving field, but also she’s the youngest of 431 athletes     2     China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics. If the Games had gone on as     3     (schedule) last summer, she would have been too young     4     (meet) the minimum age (14) to compete in the diving competition. Now, she’s made Olympic history.

Each of Quan’s dives was the highest of the five rounds of competition at the 10-meter platform. Two scored perfect 10s from all seven     5     (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive,     6     (award) her a 9.5 next to six 10s. But it didn’t count, thanks to diving’s scoring system. The two highest and two     7     (low) scores are thrown out and multiplied(相乘) by the dive’s degree of difficulty. That means only the three middle 10s counted on her final dive and added up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.

At such     8     young age, Quan was a relatively unknown person     9     winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She     10     (be) a 17-year-old veteran(老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.

Stephen Curry’s grandfather built a simple basket by     1     (attach) a piece of plastic to a telephone pole. Stephen spent many childhood hours playing on this     2     (mud) basketball court. It was where he learnt to be creative and flexible as a player.

    3     (know) where the ball would go wasn’t easy in those poor conditions. He had to adjust his own playing style as a result. Shooting with great accuracy     4     another thing he learnt. Practising day in and day out helped Stephen sharpen his skills.

Many people didn’t think he would be a successful basketball player,     5     he never gave up. His creativity and     6     (persevere) made him Davidson’s star player.     7     (select) for the NBA in 2009, he performed     8     everyone’s expectations with his accurate shooting and continuous efforts. Stephen won his first NBA championship in 2015.

After receiving the Most Valuable Player award for two years in     9     row, Stephen explained his philosophy. In his opinion,     10     he wanted to do was just be himself. What he did was to work every single day to get better. At the same time, what others thought of him didn’t influence what he became.

Chinese athlete Quan Hongchan produced three perfect 10-point dives in     1     amazing display to win the Olympic women’s 10 meters platform gold medal on Thursday, a performance     2     （illustrate）China’s dominance（优势）in the sport.

Quan, aged 14, beat her teammate Chen Yuxi with 466.20 points. She     3     （award） perfect 10 points from all seven judges for her second and fourth dives. For her fifth effort, six judges gave her 10 and one 9.5,     4     that was still enough for a maximum mark of 96.00 points.

The teenager,     5     is just old enough to compete at the Olympics thanks to the Tokyo Games being put     6     a year, said she didn’t expect to win as the Tokyo Olympics is her first time     7     （compete） overseas.

Speaking of how she managed to make three perfect 10-point dives, which made     8     （limit） splashes when diving into the pool, Quan said the team director just asked her to sleep early before the test.

Her performance was met with thunderous     9     （applaud） from onlookers. Thursday’s result means Quan became the second     10     （young） woman to win a gold medal in the women’s 10 -meters platform.

Two books about the athletes have been released at the same time. In "The Barcelona Complex" Simon Kuper, a journalist at the Financial Times, analyses how the Spanish football club became a giant, with Mr Messi, its "engine and standard-bearer". "The Master"     1     Christopher Clarey, a journalist at the New York Times, is a more conventional biography.     2    (base) on interviews with the tennis player and his inner circle, both books offer     3    (value) ideas of how sporting greatness     4     (achieve).

Modern athletes are more disciplined than their ancestors who often lived like rock stars and expected their bodies to give out before    5     (get) to middle age. In the early 1970s, Johan Cruyff, another Barcelona footballing   legend,     6    (be) a chain-smoker. He was so unfit that, during his time at Ajax, Cruyff would hide in the woods     7     his teammates did running training, only rejoining them for the last lap. Mr Messi, by contrast, credits a mostly vegetarian diet with prolonging his career and has benefited from his club's focus on     8     science of nutrition, sleep and psychology.

By far     9     (long) serving member of Mr Federer's team is Pierre Paganini, a former decathlete (十项全能选手) who has been his fitness coach since 2000. "A big part of the reason that I'm here     10     I am today is definitely because of Pierre," Mr Federer has said.