After winning the 100-meter dash at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August, 26-year-old sprinter (短跑运动员) Noah Lyles was named “World’s Fastest Man”. Now he has his ____ set on winning more medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Lyles, the son of two former runners, grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. He began ______ as a sprinter when he was a teenager and dreamed of going to the Olympics. He ______ for a spot (排名位置) on the US Olympic team in 2016 but did not ______. Fortunately, in 2021, he ______ the US team for the Tokyo Games and won a bronze medal in the 200-meter race.

Lyles has been ______ with legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who has held the same ____   “World’s Fastest Man”. Bolt won the 100 meter and 200 meter races at the World Championships and still holds the ___in the 200 meter with a time of 19. 19 seconds, set in 2009. Lyles’ best time for that race is 19.31, and he said his _____ is to run it in 19.10 seconds, which would break Bolt’s record. Lyles said that he did not ______ top runners like Bolt as idols (偶像) while growing up. “I believed in myself and in learning something from _____people, because everyone has their own advantage,” he said.

After his win, Lyles said he felt that his years of training and patience have finally ______. In Paris next year, Lyles hopes to win more golds.   “If I got three gold medals at the World Championships, maybe I have the ______ to get three gold medals at the Olympics,” he said. His another expectation is to make track and field more _____ and accessible to a large number of people. “I’m trying to make sure that everybody comes and ______ the sport,” he said.

Cliff Young was a 61-year-old farmer. He had no_________experience as an athlete and was laughed at when first participating in an Australian ultramarathon (超马拉松赛) in 1983.

He had no professional equipment to complete the race,_________win it, and was quickly left behind. He even wasn’t _________that the race included scheduled stops for participants to_________, and while others took breaks, Cliff moved on into the right.

Things went on just as what happened in The Tortoise and the Hare (龟兔赛跑).

Cliff_________took over the athletes and won. He entered the race as a_________and finished it a national hero. Actually, he had been used to the lengthy running the ultramarathon_________, as he had to stay out for days fetching sheep at his farm. He just took the race as another day running after_________before the storm, which enabled him to complete the race without any_________.

Australia was so impressed by the achievement that a race was__________for him, the Cliff Young Australian Six-Day Race. In the race in 2000, he even set the world__________record. No player was older. Now he still__________athletes.

The tortoise and hare story aims to tell children the importance of steadiness over__________, though growing up makes one realize that speed does make a__________in the competitive world. Cliff__________that steadiness might actually win in some grown-up cases as well.

Wimbledon tournament was going on. Though I am not a great follower of the game. I decided to _________ this one, only because Rafael Nadal was playing. And then there was his _________ . “Weird （古怪的）"was the first _________ that came in my mind when I saw him— waist-length hair, tongue piercing_, tattoos...

As the match began, there were loud _________ for Nadal. But as the game _________ , it seemed that Nadal was made to run on every rally by this “weirdo”. The _________ was shocked. How could he play like this?

By the second set, it had become _________ that Dustin Brown （by that time everyone knew his name） was beating Nadal _________ . So every rally that Brown won. there were loud cheers. Even I had started cheering for him now.

My uncle was visiting us that evening. As he saw all this, he said, “Look at all these envious people. They are so happy that an accomplished person is getting _________”

__________ struck me. I started feeling __________ that even I was enjoying seeing a great player going down. Even after the __________ finished and Brown won, I was low.

My dad saw all this. Before going to sleep, he kept his hand on my shoulder and __________in my ears, “They were not cheering because they felt good that a great man was __________ . They cheered because that 'weirdo' showed everyone that even the best can be beaten if you try hard, no matter how you look. Brown gave them __________ . Good night, son!”