While some athletes at the Tokyo Games shot to popularity by winning medals, others became stars on social media. Many competitors using services like TikTok and Instagram have 【小题1】 (great) expanded their fan base.

One athlete who is getting popular is not even an Olympian yet. Silvia Solymosyova is a swimmer 【小题2】 Slovakia, a small country. She has published videos on TikTok in English in an effort to get attention in the U.S. So far she 【小题3】 (gain) over 1 million followers, mostly with videos 【小题4】 (show) her dancing underwater.

Jagger Eaton is a young American skateboarder. He has been competing since he was a boy. He is now 20. Eaton, who won 【小题5】 bronze medal in Tokyo, said he is “stoked” that so many people are now 【小题6】 (interest) in skateboarding. He has about 500,000 followers between Instagram and TikTok.

Another American athlete, Erik Shoji, is getting attention for his videos 【小题7】 show off the food and atmosphere inside the Olympic village in Tokyo. Shoji is an American volleyball player. He said the goal of his videos 【小题8】 (be) to share his own experiences in the athlete’s village and 【小题9】 (help) fans to learn more about the U.S. 【小题10】 (men) volleyball team.

Mourning Kobe

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant and one of his daughters were among nine people 【小题1】 (kill) Sunday morning when a helicopter crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California. Everyone from current and former NBA players 【小题2】 former President Barack Obama mourned Bryant's 【小题3】 (die). NBA Clippers(快船队) coach Doc Rivers, who 【小题4】 (know) Bryant for many years, was 【小题5】 (emotion) when discussing it. “He means a lot to me, obviously. He was 【小题6】a great opponent that he helped arouse our potential. It’s 【小题7】 you want in sports,” Rivers said. He also said Bryant had the “DNA” 【小题8】very few athletes could ever have.

Most people will remember Kobe as the magnificent athlete who inspired 【小题9】whole generation of basketball players, 【小题10】I will always remember him as a man who was much more than an athlete.

Deng Yaping, who was a well-known table tennis player, was born in 1973, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. She started playing table tennis at the age of 5 and【小题1】(show) her great gift. Four years later, she won her provincial junior championship. At the age of 13, she won her first 【小题2】 (nation) championship and beat many other competitors in all kinds of matches in【小题3】 following years. She had won 18 championships by the time she retired(退役) from sports at the age of 24. Deng Yaping is regarded as one of the greatest 【小题4】(player) in the history of sport.

However, 【小题5】(compare) with other athletes, she made more efforts【小题6】(achieve) her dream. At first, Deng Yaping【小题7】(refuse) by the Henan Provincial Team just because she wasn’t tall enough. Her path to success was filled with many other difficulties, none of 【小题8】 stopped her. She practised even【小题9】 (hard) and finally made it to the top. Her great determination has inspired thousands of people. Now, she has become a living legend in the sports field【小题10】home and abroad.