3 .     1    . The legendary volleyball coach Lang Ping gave the answer in the recent documentary (纪录片) The Iron Hammer.

The documentary displays Lang’s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her amazing career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013. She was the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach. Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. As she said, “    2    ”.

    3    . Troubled by severe injuries to her cervical vertebra, back, waist and knees, caused by intense exercise and hard work, the 60-year-old has undergone more than 10 surgeries. “No parts of my body function well,” she joked.

But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year.     4    “I’m proud of being Chinese”   Lang responded in an interview. Later she returned to head the Chinese women ’s volleyball team in 2013, leading the team successfully defending its World Cup crown with a perfect record of 11 straight wins last year.

There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an American athlete commented in the documentary,     5    .

4 . What’s the meaning of the “dark horse”? It is someone who wins when no one expect it.

Han Xiaopeng took China’s first gold on snow. He became an Olympic “dark horse” by winning the gold medal in men’s freestyle skiing aerials (自由式滑雪空中技巧) at Turin in Italy. He made two almost perfect jumps for the highest score. Han had never won a world gold medal before, let alone in the Olympics!

“I never thought this would happen,” said Han Xiaopeng, “I feel like I’m in a dream.” It’s China’s second gold medal at the Turin Olympic Winter Games. But more important, Han’s gold was the country’s first ever in a snow sport. In 2002, China’s Yang Yang won the gold for speed skating at the Winter Olympic in Salt Lake City, US.

That Han’s win was unexpected doesn’t mean that he didn’t work hard.

Han grew up in Jiangsu Province. Before he started his training on snow, he used to be an acrobat (杂技演员) at a circus. In 1995, a coach found his talent. The coach, Yang Er’qi, said Han had the agility (灵活性) and courage to be a ski jumper. When Yang first took the 12-year-old boy to northern China, he couldn’t swim, skate or ski. But he wasn’t afraid of the high platform and kept on training.

Han almost left the sport after hurting his knee months before the Salt Lake Games. In that Olympics he only got 24^th. “I was hopeless at that time, but my family and the coach stood behind me, helping me through,” he recalled.

Han Xiaopeng worked so hard that he won the gold medal in the Olympics at last. Because of his success, more and more people in China are becoming interested in skiing. We are proud of him.

A public memorial for Lakers great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna     1    (hold) Monday at Staples Center.

Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, has spoken for the first time since the crash.

Michael Jordan also gave a     2     (move) speech about his close friend Kobe Bryant during the memorial.

“Maybe     3     surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends. But we were very close friends. Kobe was my dear friend. He was like     4     little brother.”

In the past few years, Jordan’s crying emotion     5     (be) popular throughout the Internet. During this memorial service speech, Jordan also humorously teased Kobe to make himself cry again,     6     caused a burst of     7     (laugh).

“Now, he’s got me and I’ll have to look at another crying meme for the next …three or four years.”

“No one knows how much time we have. That’s     8     we must live in the moment, we must enjoy the moment, we must reach and see and spend as much time as we can     9     our families and friends and the people that we absolutely love.     10    (live) in the moment means enjoying each and every one that we come in contact with.”

“When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died.”

“Please, rest in peace little brother.”

7 . Chinese athletes were highlighted by a series of inspirational wins in the International Ski Federation’s World Cup circuit recently. China’s Gu Ailing, a Chinese freestyle talent, made history by becoming the first ever back-to-back freeski World Cup winner in two different events at the same venue after claiming the slopestyle title in Calgary, Canada, on Feb.15, 2020. The day before, Gu had stormed to her first Cup gold in the halfpipe competition.

Gu again thrilled the crowds on Feb.15 in the slopestyle with another impressive display of technical riding, landing a string of difficult tricks, including a massive right 900° twist with a tail grab in her second run that earned her 89.18 points to dominate the 18-strong field.

“Honestly, my mind is blown,” Gu told the FIS website after the competition. “Coming in I didn’t have any expectations. I try not to take anything for granted. Honestly, I could not have expected two wins from these events.”

“I really just came in trying to do my best and ski the way I knew I could. Skiing my best is really the best part of this, and being rewarded for it just makes it even better.”

Born to a Chinese mother and an American father in San Francisco, US, Gu, better known as Eileen in the States, completed a naturalization process last June to represent China in international competitions.

Now she has her sights set on doing her mother’s home country proud at the 2022 Beijing Games.

A talented skier who has won many national junior titles in the US, Gu became a hit last month after winning two golds and a silver — in halfpipe, Big Air and slopestyle — at her first appearance in Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland.

With Gu now on board in freeski, China’s snow sports team, which also features world-class aerial skiers and halfpipe snowboarders, is determined to challenge Western dominance on the snow in 2022.

It can be easy to miss the wonderful performances of Klay Thompson if you watch at the Golden State Warriors(金州勇士) team in the NBA.

NBA Most Valuable Players Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant tend     1    (get) most of the attention, while Andre Iguadola     2    (watch) closely as well. But then Thompson, 26, does something to make you suddenly remember how special he is, too.

His 60-point game against Indiana on Dec. 5 was an excellent game in     3     has already been an amazing season. Scoring 60     4    (point) in a game is one thing, and it has only happened 66 times in the history of the NBA. But to do it in less than three quarters of play—29 minutes—    5    (be) something very special indeed.

Even     6    (hard) to believe was the fact that Thompson only dribbled(运球) the ball 11 times and held it in his hand for just 88 seconds during     7     whole game.

"I am going to watch the tape of this game and see what I did well and     8    (obvious) celebrate this tonight, because it's something I never thought I could do while     9    (grow) up," Thompson told reporters after the game.

Klay Thompson already knew a lot about basketball early in his life. His father Mychal Thompson, the 1978 No 1 overall pick(选秀状元) in NBA, had a lot of influence     10     him while he was growing up.

9 . “Tennis一I'm saying goodbye." With these words, Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova, 32, has announced her retirement.

“How do you leave behind the only life you've ever known?" she asked herself. Several reasons played a role in Sharapova leaving the tennis court for good.

Over the last couple of years, she's dealt with an injury in her right shoulder and inflammation (炎症) in her forearms that may have prevented her from returning to top form. In more recent news, the death of her longtime friend, US basketball legend Kobe Bryant, also played a factor in her decision to retire.

“As I think you've seen throughout my career, my perseverance has been my greatest tool, my greatest strength," Sharapova said in an interview.“But I've started feeling like it was becoming a weakness, because the stubbornness that was keeping me going was keeping me going for wrong reasons."

Sharapova rose to fame at age 17 when she won Wimbledon in 2004. She won a total of four Grand Slam singles titles; the 2006 US Open, the 2008 Australian Open, and the 2012 and 2014 French Open. She also earned the Fed Cup title in Russia in 2008 and an Olympic silver medal in singles in 2012, among many other accomplishments. For 16 straight years from 2004, Sharapova was the world's highest-earning female athlete, according to Forbes. Off the court, she made millions of dollars from companies such as Evian and Nike, as well as starting her own candy company.

"Tennis showed me the world - - and it showed me what I was made of," Sharapova wrote on Facebook on Feb 26, alongside a photo of herself as a young girl with a tennis racquet, “It's how I tested myself and how I measured my growth. And so in whatever I might choose for my next chapter, my next mountain, I’ll still be pushing. I'll still be climbing. I'll still be growing.”

Lang Ping and Mchael Jordan are famous masters shaking up the sports world.

Lang Ping led     1     women’s volleyball team of China to medals at world     2     (championship) and the Olympics. When they were preparing for the 2015 World Cup, her determination     3     (test). One of the best players got injured, and the team captain left because of heart problems.     4     (lose) two important players didn’t get Lang Ping to lose heart. She believed that her young players could win if they worked together     5     a team. And she really made it. Two weeks later, they were world champions!

Michael Jordan,     6     (know) as “Air Jordan”, changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. It was not his skills     7     his mental strength that made him unique. Jordan says that the secret to his     8     (succeed) is learning form his failures. He learnt much from losing games and practised much     9     (hard). In life, Jordan has learnt to give back to society. The Boys and Girls Club which he started in Chicago     10     (help) young people since 1996.