I. Translate into Ukrainian:

1. The Olympic Games began in 777 BC in Greece and took place every four years for nearly twelve centuries at Olimpia.

2. They included many different kinds of sports: running, boxing, wrestling, etc.

3. The International Olympic Committee decides upon the programme of the games, the number of the participants and the city-host for the Games.

4. Ukraine has won 96 medals at the Summer Games and five at the Winter Games.

II. Find the ending of the sentences:

1. All the cities in Greece sent their best athletes ……

2. For the period of the Games ……

3. So the Olympic Games became the symbol of ……

4. The Olympic emblem is ……

5. The Games were for men only. Greek women were forbidden not only to participate ……

6. The International Olympic Committee is ……

7. Summer and Winter Games ……

8. The city-host starts preparations for the competitions, constructs ……

9. Thousands of ……

10. There is always an interesting cultural programme of ……

1. …… the central policy-making body of the Olympic movement.

2. …… peace and friendship.

3. …… but also to watch the Olympics.

4. …… concerts, exhibitions, festivals, etc., for each Games.

5. …… are held separately.

6. …… new sports facilities, stadiums, hotels, press centres.

7. …… athletes, journalists and guests come to the Games.

8. …… all the wars stopped.

9. …… five interlinked rings: blue, yellow, black, green and red.

10. …… to Olimpia to compete in the Games.

Topic 61. Olympic Champions

Olympic Champions

M any people in the world go in for sports. Ukraine is not an exception. There are many talented skilful sportsmen in our country. The Ukrainian school of gymnastics is recognized the world over. Iryna Deriuhina, Oksana Skaldina, Oleksandra Tymoshenko have won World and European Championships.

During her sport activities Larysa Latynina won 18 medals at the Olympic Games, including 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze.

Valerii Borzov is a famous Ukrainian sprinter. At the 20^th and 21^st Olympic Games he won 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Serhii Bubka is considered to be the best World's Athlete. He holds 35 world records in the pole vault and was eight times World champion and Olympic champion in this kind of sport.

B eing already an independent state Ukraine sent the national team to the 1992 Olympic Games, where Oksana Baiul, a young figure skater, won the first gold medal for our country.

At the 26^th Olympic Games which took place in Atlanta our Ukrainian sportsmen won 9 gold medals and many silver and bronze ones. The following names have become known in the whole world: Olympic champion in gymnastics Katia Serebrianska, Olympic champion in boxing Volodymyr Klychko, Olympic champion in track-and-field athletics Inesa Kravets, Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling Viacheslav Oliinyk and others.