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    — Unie 5 Chapter 2: Beyond the Body's Limits Before You A answer these questions. es What is the name of this sport? What 1 Look at the photo on the next page- Stronger, Faster, do you know about it? Highe ner 2 This sport is an event at the Olympic Games. How are Olympic athletes different from ordinary people? B piscuss your answers with a partner. Reading Skill: A\ Look at the photo and the title of the reading. Circle the words that you Predicting Vocabulary expect to see in the article. By thinking about epfurance movie the topic of a g ‘seat reading and the n th : - Resch tal streng determination you expect to see, by memorize You can increase dance your understanding and your fluency in reading. 64 Unit 5: Chapter 2 Beyond the Body’s Limits ‘Atthe Sydney Olympics in 2000, a British man, Steve Redgrave, showed the world how resilient the human mind and body are. At the Olympics, athletes demonstrate both their athletic skills and their strength. In Sydney, Steve Redgrave and the British rowing team won the gold medal. He beat every other rowing team in the world—and coped with two very serious illnesses. ‘Nate Fist and Steve Rev (ND | Redgrave was one of the world’s top rowers, with Olympic medals from » 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, as well as nine World Championship medals. Then, suddenly, he faced two serious health problems. In 1997, he had surgery for appendicitis,’ and was unable to row for a time after the ‘ation. The next year, he was diagnosed? with diabetes,’ a severe problem for an athlete. People with diabetes need to watch their diet and exercise «« very carefully, and give themselves daily injections of insulin to control their blood sugar. “My first thought was that my rowing career was at an end," Redgrave said. But instead of giving up rowing—a very physically demanding sport—he decided to continue the exhausting training for the Olympics, even though \ » his body was sick. He had to test his blood sugar many times every day. | ‘Athletes often push themselves to the limits of physical and mental endurance by regularly trying to go faster, higher, and further in their chosen sport than any other athlete has in the past. Many spend weeks or months | recovering from damage they have done to their bodies in training. yple who put great stress on their bodies. There » person's endurance and puta greater strain on one’s health. Astronauts, for example, suffer from loss of calcium and other important minerais in their bones almost as soon as they go into space. Many astronauts also lose bone density and muscle strength while in » space. This occurs because they are floating, rather than walking, for long, | periods of time. For this reason, when an astronaut returns to earth, he or she may have difficulty walking. ‘Astronauts and athletes use great courage and determination to overcome the limits of the human body. At the Sydney Olympic Games, Steve » Redgrave and his team rowed to victory, and his fifth Olympic gold medal. It ‘was an amazing achievement for Redgrave—and it showed the world what | » Athletes are not the only pi are certain occupations that | the human body can endure. | ‘appendicitis a dangerous disease of the tana o he spent (ema ann the gest ‘diagnose to discover what disease a person has pence ‘diabetes a cisease in which the body doosn't produce enough insulin (the chemical that controls the amount of sacarielvour blood) Reading Passage: Beyond the Body's Limits Beyond the Body's Limits 65 j Reading = A answer true (7) or false (F). Change the false sta omprehension: Check Your Tle Understanding Bae: a sn | = 1 Steve Redgrave is a famous ‘lympio athlete rom Syeney._}_| say te

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