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Lazutina said that the Olympic season (2002) was definitely going to be the last. She said: ”I took up skiing when I was 5 years old and after all these years my mind and body tell me it’s time to stop”.

1. How many world titles has Lazutina won?

2. What title was she awarded after the Nagano Games?

3. How did she train after the 1997 World Championship?

4. Is she going to continue her performance in sports?

II.Complete as in the text.

1. Lazutina has won …

2. After a disastrous performance at the 1997 World Championships in Trondheim, Norway, Lazutina said …

3. … marked Lazutina’s fourth Olympic appearance.

4. She had a total of …

5. Lazutina said that the Olympic season (2002) …

Pavel Bure.

Pavel Bure played junior hockey in his hometown Moscow. In 1987-1988 he made his soviet elite league debut with five games for CSKA Moscow. In 1988-1989 still a teenager Bure scored 26 points in 32 games. At season’s end he was named Soviet Rookie of the Year. After scoring 14 goals in 1989-1990 Bure scored 35 goals in just 44 Soviet elite league games in 1990-1991.

Nicknamed “The Russian Rocket” Bure was drafted 113^thoverall in the 1989 Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks. In 1991-1992 he traveled to North America and joined the Canucks for 65 games scoring 34 goals. He won the Calder Trophy for Rookie of the Year and finished first among the Canucks in goals, short-handed goals and game winning goals. The Canucks won the Smythe Division title and then made the second round of the playoffs, where Bure had six goals in 13 games. In 1992-1993 Bure followed up with a team best 60-goal, 110-point effort, participated in his first All-Star Game and led the Canucks to their second straight Smythe Division season title, contributing a franchise-record 101 points.

In 1998- 1999, after sitting out most of the season because of a contract dispute, Bure was traded to the Florida Panthers. He played only 11 games for the Panthers before suffering a season-ending knee injury. In 1999-2000 Bure returned and won inaugural Maurice Richard Trophy with a league-leading 58 goals and finished second in league scoring with 94 points. In 2000-2001, Bure won his second Richard Trophy with a league-best 59 goals and again played the All-Star Game.

Pavel Bure’s scoring touch has been feared both in the NHL – where he is a six-time All-Star – and on the Olympic ice. In Nagano, he led the Games tournament with nine goals as Russia earned the silver medal. He has led the NHL in goals scored three times.

1. Where did Bure play junior hockey?

2. What is his nickname?

3. What was the largest number of goals he scored during the season?

4. How many goals did he score in Nagano?

II.Put in the correct order as in the text.

1. In 2000-2001, Bure won his second Richard Trophy with a league- best 59 goals and again played the All-Star Game.

2. Pavel Bure played junior hockey in his hometown Moscow.

3. Nicknamed “The Russian Rocket” Bure was drafted 113^thoverall in the 1989 Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks.

4. After scoring 14 goals in 1989-1990 Bure scored 35 goals in just 44 Soviet elite league games in 1990-1991.

5. . In 1987-1988 he made his soviet elite league debut with five games for CSKA Moscow.

3. Make up a story about your sports career using the following words and word combinations:

My name is; to be born; to do sports; to take up (swimming, figure skating, fencing, gymnastics etc.); at the age of; to have the first (second) ranking in; to be a (Candidate) Master of Sports of Russia; to be a member of some sports society (sports club); to participate in competitions; to show good results; to take part in national (European, World) championship; to be a three-time national champion; to win the tournament; to be a winner; to be a record-holder; to win a gold (silver, bronze) medal; to complete school; to be a first-year student; to work as a coach (a teacher of physical education); to study by correspondence; to become a coach in; to be hard-working, persistent and courageous.

Тексты для чтения ( III, IV семестр ). Text 11 Athletics.

Athletics or track-and-field sports, consists of competitions in running, walking, jumping and throwing events. Athletics has become the most truly international of sports, with nearly every country in the world engaging in some form of competition. Most nations send teams of men and women to the quadrennial Olympic Games and to the official World Championships of track and field. There also are several continental and intercontinental championship meets held, including the European, Commonwealth, African, Pan-American and Asian.

Within the broad title of athletics come as many as two dozen distinct events. These events generally held outdoors make up a meet. The outdoor running events are held on 400m oval track and field events (jumping and throwing) either inside the track’s perimeter or in adjacent areas.

In many parts of the world the sport moves indoors during the winter; because of limited space, some events are modified and several are eliminated altogether.

Also within the general scope of track-and-field athletics come separate but related competitions that are not contested on the track. Cross-country running competition is carried out on various types of countryside and parkland. Marathons and races of other long distances are run on roads and the long-distance race walks are contested on measured road courses. The rules followed by all organized competitions are established and enforced by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) and its member body from each nation. The IAAF also ratifies all world records.

1. Answer the questions:

1. What does athletics consist of?

2. Is track-and-field included in the programme of the Olympic Games?

3. What championships in track-and-field athletics do you know?

4. Where are track-and-field events generally held?

5. Where are marathons and races of other long distances run?

6. What is the IAAF?

7. What does the IAAF ratify?

2. Put the sentences in the correct order as in the text.

1. The rules followed by all organized competitions are established and enforced by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) and its member body from each nation. The IAAF also ratifies all world records.

2. These events generally held outdoors make up a meet.

3. Most nations send teams of men and women to the quadrennial Olympic Games and to the official World Championships of track and field.

4. Within the broad title of athletics come as many as two dozen distinct events.

5. Athletics has become the most truly international of sports, with nearly every country in the world engaging in some form of competition.

6. Athletics or track-and-field sports, consists of competitions in running, walking, jumping and throwing events.

7. The IAAF also ratifies all world records.

Text 12 Football.

The roots of soccer are grounded in antiquity, but the modern form gained its shape in October 1863 in London, where the first football association (English Football Association) was established and the laws of the game were formulated.

Contemporary soccer is truly an international game, with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), established in 1904, representing more than 170 nations. Soccer was introduced to the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 and the inaugural World Cup was played in 1930 in Montevideo. Since then such luminaries as Pele, Cuyff, Beckenbauer, Maradona, Romario, Roberto Baggio, David Beckham, Figu and Zedane have served to spread the passion of the game around the world.

Two teams of 11 players try to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opposition’s goal. The team with the most goals after two 45-minute halves of play wins the game. The outfield players may not touch the ball with their hands or arms. The goalkeepers may use their hands within the rectangle around their own goal known as the penalty area. If a defender kicks the ball back to the goalkeeper, the goalkeeper may not use his hands.

The team captains toss a coin. The winner chooses which goal to attack in the first half of the match, while the loser kicks off. In the second half the other team kicks off and teams change ends and attack in opposite goals. A goal is scored when the whole of the ball passes over the goal line, between the goalposts and under the crossbar.

A football field for international matches must be 100 to 110 metreslong and 64 to 75 metres wide. The half way line crosses it dividing it into two equal halves. It also dissects the centre circle with its 9.1 m radius from the centre of the field. A penalty area is marked at each end.

The goals stand 2.44m high and 7.32m wide. The football must be 68 to 70 centimetres in circumference and not weigh more than 450g and not less than 410g.

1. Answer the questions:

1. When were the laws of football formulated?

2. When was soccer introduced to the Olympic Games?

3. How many players are there in each team?

4. How long does the game last?

5. Do you know any famous football players?

6. What is the aim of the game?

7. Is soccer an international game?

2. Complete the sentences as in the text.

1. The winner chooses which goal to attack…, while the loser kicks off.

2. The goalkeepers may use their hands … .

3. … passes over the goal line, between the goalposts and under the crossbar.

4. The roots of soccer are grounded in antiquity, but the modern form gained its shape … .

5.… touch the ball with their hands or arms.

Text 13 Gymnastics.

In ancient times gymnastics was warming up for battle. In modern times it’s a televisual spectacle with close-ups of the effort and emotion which the young competitors pour into their performances. The gymnastics “family” now numbers three at the Games: artistic, rhythmic and trampoline. Artistic gymnastics is the most familiar and it breaks down into a number of individual events. Men compete in floor, vault, pommel horse, parallel bars, rings and horizontal bars. Women compete on the vault, floor, uneven bars and balance beam. The competition includes all-round events and team events.

In rhythmic gymnastics female gymnasts, accompanied by music, perform on a 13-meter square floor area with rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. In the individual events they perform different routines with four of the five apparatus. Teams of five perform together, once using clubs and once with two using hoops and three using ribbons.

Trampoline gymnastics was introduced in the Sydney 2000 Games. Men and women compete as individuals. Each event has 12 gymnasts, who compete in a qualifying round and a final in one day. The competition involves both compulsory routines, displaying a specified set of skills, and optional routines chosen by the gymnast.

1. Answer the questions.

1. What events does the gymnastics consist of?

2. What is the most popular?

3. When was trampoline gymnastics introduced?

2. Translate from English into Russian.

1. vault

2. bars

3. hoops

4. female gymnasts

5. ribbons

III. Put the sentences in the correct order as in the text.

1. Women compete on the vault, floor, uneven bars and balance beam.

2. In ancient times gymnastics was warming up for battle.

3. The gymnastics “family” now numbers three at the Games: artistic, rhythmic and trampoline.

4. Trampoline gymnastics was introduced in the Sydney 2000 Games.

5. In modern times it’s a televisual spectacle with close-ups of the effort and emotion which the young competitors pour into their performances.

6. Men compete in floor, vault, pommel horse, parallel bars, rings and horizontal bars.

7. Artistic gymnastics is the most familiar and it breaks down into a number of individual events.

Text 14 Swimming.

There are four styles of sports swimming: freestyle (crawl), backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Swimming is one of the sports that make up the Olympic Games. Swimmers from all over the world compete in these games. It may seem strange that swimming was not included in ancient Olympic Games, though people had known it long ago. Both in ancient Greece and Rome swimming was as important as reading. As a sport swimming was practised in Japan. There swimming contests were held before the new era. Since the 17^th century it has been taught in schools.

One of the earliest swimming competitions in Europe was held in 1515 in Venice. First swimming pools begin to appear in the end of the 18^th century. Swimmers trained and contested mostly in rivers, ponds and lakes, which was only possible in summer. In the 19^th century covered pools appeared and swimming became very popular.

The first European championship was held in 1890. Six years later, swimming became the Olympic sport and in 1908 the International Swimming Federation was formed.