Seemingly ageless gymnastics legend Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan 【小题1】 (narrow) missed a medal in the Vault (跳马) Final in Hangzhou Asian Games on Thursday. “I still need to improve in order to quality for the Olympics, but I feel I have more energy than before,” 【小题2】 48-yesr-old told Xinhua after the match, who is still taking part in such a challenging event for her motherland despite the fact that most of her 【小题3】 (compete) are less than half her age.

Chusovitina 【小题4】 (impress) the audience as the tried a routine with a difficulty of 5.0 and she landed well to get a score of 13.533, but the difficulty in her second routine dropped to only 4.4. “I am not feeling regret 【小题5】 missing a medal in Asian Games. Life is not over and I will continue to train.” she said.

Chusovitina has a storied history at the Asian Games, 【小题6】 (win) eight medals, including two golds in 2002. When 【小题7】 (she) son was diagnosed with leukemia (白血病) in 2002, Chusovitina adopted German citizenship to compete at 【小题8】 (globe) events for a higher income and better medical treatment. After her son’s recovery, she continued her gymnastics journey out of love for the sport. With Paris 2024 fast 【小题9】 (approach), Chusovitina said she’s aiming for next year’s Paris Olympics, 【小题10】 she would be 49.

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 【小题1】 (compete) in the women’s diving field, but also she’s the youngest of 431 athletes 【小题2】 China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics. If the Games had gone on as 【小题3】 (schedule) last summer, she would have been too young 【小题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 【小题5】 (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive, 【小题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 【小题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 【小题8】 young age, Quan was a relatively unknown person 【小题9】 winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She 【小题10】 (be) a 17-year-old veteran(老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.

On March 12, 2022, the Chinese women’s soccer team summoned (召唤) all of their 【小题1】 (determine) and skills and finally won the game, 【小题2】(end) a 16-year wait to carry off the Asian Cup. “We never let our heads drop when we lagged behind by 0 — 2. The players defeated both their opponents and 【小题3】 (they),” said the head coach Shui Qingxia.

The Steel Roses’ victory completely dominated discussions on Chinese social media. A survey revealed that the topic “Chinese women’s team wins Asian Cup” 【小题4】 (view) billions of times. However, that was just one of 10 heated topics 【小题5】 (relate) to the women’s team on Weibo. 【小题6】 (count) thrilled people commented that “The whole team is worthy of every praise.” After their victory, media and experts 【小题7】 (urge) for greater support for the development of the women’s game. Up to now, a number of Chinese companies have taken actions to reward them 【小题8】 a dairy giant Mengniu Group gifting the team 10 million yuan.

Now the work is to continue to revive (复兴) past glories, as well as improve 【小题9】 standard of the domestic youth training to give the country a better chance of producing more great players. This victory certainly showed that such targets can be realized. The women’s soccer team has great spirit and skill, 【小题10】 are our role models!