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4. Yelena Isinbayeva (1982– )

Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after revelations of an extensive state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission. Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances at the world championships in 2009 and 2010, she took a year-long break from the sport. She became the first woman to clear the five-metre barrier in 2005. Her current world record is 5.06 m outdoors, set in Zurich in August 2009. Her 5.01 m indoors was the world record for just over a year. The latter was Isinbayeva’s twenty-eighth pole vault world record. Isinbayeva was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. In 2007 she entered in the FICTS "Hall of Fame" and was awarded with "Excellence Guirlande D’Honneur". She was given the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009. She is one of only ten athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, David Storl and Faith Kipyegon) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.

5. Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941–2021)

Vyacheslav Petrovich Vedenin was a Soviet cross-country skier. His silver medal over 50 km was the only medal won by a Soviet male skier at the 1968 Olympics, as his 4×10 km team placed fourth. At the next Olympics he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union and won three medals, with golds in the 30 km and 4×10 km and a bronze in the 50 km. In the 4×10 km event Vedenin ran the last leg and won by 10 seconds, despite starting with a one-minute lag from Norway. His gold in the 30 km was the first individual win for a Soviet male skier at the Winter Olympics. Vedenin also won three medals at the 1970 World Championships with two golds (30 km, 4x10 km) and one silver (50 km). After retiring from competitions he coached skiers at Dynamo Moscow, for which he competed through his entire career.

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Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970) and Order of Lenin (1972). Since 1989 a competition "Vedenin’s Ski Track" («Лыжня Веденина») is held yearly in Dubna, Dubensky District, in his honor. Vedenin had two sons, Vyacheslav and Andrey. Vyacheslav is an international skiing referee who worked at the 2014 Winter Olympics and also took Olympic Oath on behalf of officials. Andrei is a former biathlon competitor.

COMREHENSION EXERCISES

1. Fill in the blanks with the word from the list.

regarded, athletes, pole, track, record, champion, throw, jackpot, referee, current, weightlifter, cross-country, coached, compete, career, female.

Yuriy Sedykh is the most famous Russian Athlete. He was a ________

and field athlete. He was a European, World and Olympic Champion, and holds the world record with a __________of 86.74 m in 1986.

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet__________. He set 80 worldrecords and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.

Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel was a Russian high jumper. He is

________ as one of the greatest athletes ever to _________in the high jump. His international __________was ended by a motorcycle crash in 1965.

Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian former __________vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time World Champion. She is the __________world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest __________pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva has been a major __________on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the

__________winner of the IAAF Golden League series. Her current world

__________is 5.06 m outdoors. In 2007 she entered in the FICTS "Hall of Fame" and was awarded with "Excellence Guirlande D’Honneur". She is one of only ten __________to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event. Vyacheslav Petrovich Vedenin was a Soviet

__________skier. Vedenin won three medals at the 1970 World Championships. After retiring from competitions he __________skiers at Dynamo Moscow. Vedenin had two sons, Vyacheslav and Andrey. Vyacheslav is an international skiing__________. Andrei is a former biathlon competitor.

2.Answer the questions to the text.

1.How many languages was Sedykh’s biography translatwd into?

2.What is Sedykh’s world record?

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3.What sport did Alekseyev succeed in?

4.How many world records did he set?

5.When did Alekseyev win gold medals?

6.What sport did Brunel perform in?

7.How many times did Isinbayeva win Olympics?

8.When did she retire from sport?

9.What is her current world record?

10.Why was Isinbayeva banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics?

11.What did Vedenin do after retiring from competitions?

3.Choose the right answer.

1.Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh was a track and field __________.

a)coach

b)referee

c)athlete

d)champion

2.He was a __________, World and Olympic Champion. a) European

b) Soviet c) Russian d) Regional

3.He set 80 world-records and 81 Soviet records in __________ and won Olympic gold medals.

a) powerlifting b) weightlifting c) skiing

d) bungee jumping

4.Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel is _____ as one of the greatest athletes. a) regarded

b) known c) considered d) awarded

5.After poor performances at the world championships Isinbayeva took

__________ break from the sport. a) a two-year long

b) a five-year long c) a year-long

d) a ten-year long

6.Isinbayeva was named Female Athlete of the Year by the _________

in 2004, 2005 and 2008. a) NASA

b) ROC

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c)IOC

d)IAAF

7.His silver medal over 50 km was the only medal won by a Soviet male__________.

a) skater b) skier c) jumper d) runner

8.Vedenin ran the last __________and won by 10 seconds.

a)leg

b)foot

c)arm

d)hand

9.Vedenin was __________the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. a) rewarded

b) gifted c) granted d) awarded

10.Vyacheslav Vedenin is an international skiing __________who worked at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

a) umpire b) judge c) opponent d) referee

4. Find English equivalents from the text.

Всех времен, разные языки, метание молота, удерживает мировой рекорд, установил 80 мировых рекордов, многократный чемпион мира, один из величайших атлетов когда-либо, трехкратный чемпион мира, разбив все ее надежды, торжественный уход, необыкновенный успех, после слабого выступления, преодолеть пятиметровый барьер, один из десяти единственных спортсменов, бежал в последнем отрезке, минутное отставание, от лица официальных представителей.

GRAMMAR

When I went out into the garden, the sun ______(to shine).

1.I ________(to eat) ice cream when you met me in the park yesterday.

2.When I came home, Tom ______ (to speak) over the phone.

3.Somebody got into the room when we ________(to sleep).

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4.He saw Jane when she ______ (to cross) the street.

5.He ______(to wait) for Jenny when it started raining.

6.The woman ______(to have) a bath when she felt bad.

7.The man ______(to sit) by the window when he heard the noise.

8.We _______(to watch TV) when the door bell rang.

9.She______ (to read) when somebody knocked at the door.

10.They _____(to talk) about him when he suddenly came in.

2. Choose the right form of the verb in Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1.David (came / was coming) in when the children (wrote / were writing) a test.

2.Mike (phoned / was phoning) me when I (took / was taking) a shower.

3.Mike (spoke / was speaking) to me when his little sister (took / was taking) his book out of his schoolbag.

4.We (met / were meeting) them when we (stood / were standing) at the bus stop.

5.I (slept I was sleeping) when his mother (came / was coming) back.

6.On Monday Mary (cooked / was cooking) lunch when the postman (brought/ was bringing) her a letter from her friend.

7.When the teacher (came / was coming) into the classroom, the children (sat / were sitting) at their desks.

3. Order the words in the questions to the given answers.

1.Where | the white bears | swimming | were ?

______________________________________

–In the swimming pool.

2.It | was | raining ?

______________________________________

– Oh, no. It wasn’t. The sun was shining brightly.

3.The elephant | what | eating | was ?

______________________________________

– Some grass and fruit.

4.What | was | playing with | the monkey ?

_______________________________________

–With a small ball.

5.Were | how many lions | sleeping in the cage?

_______________________________________

– Both of them.

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UNIT 7

X-SPORT. HOW EXTREME IS EXTREME

1. Words to learn.

exactly – полностью, конкретно agree – соглашаться

although – хотя accessible – доступный develop – развиваться

frustrate – нарушать планы, выводить из равновесия available – доступный

tend – стремиться, иметь склонность slalom – проходить трассу

aerial – воздушный, надземный stunt – трюк

invent – изобретать

due to – в связи с, поскольку backlash – отрицательная реакция long live – да здравствует! onwards – позднее

mud – грязь

raw – грубый, примитивный suit – подходить

recently – недавно legacy – след в истории baggy – мешковатый

edgy – острый, заостренный, смелый left-field – необычный

formerly – прежде, в прошлом counterculture – контркультура

pastimes – свободное времяпрепровождение endorsement – покровительство

enough – достаточно wakeboarding – вейкбординг off-piste – внетрассовый climbing-scaling – восхождение luge – санный спорт

remain – оставаться таким же

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2. Match the words with their definitions.

X-sport. How extreme is extreme

The interesting thing about extreme sport, or X-sport as it is sometimes called, is that nobody can exactly agree what it is. The nearest thing to a dictionary definition is a sport that is "dangerous and difficult". Although fig- ure-skating is pretty difficult, and ice hockey and boxing can both be very

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dangerous, they are definitely not extreme sports. The most popular – and accessible – extreme sports are probably skateboarding, BMX and snowboarding, all activities that were originally developed in North America.

The birth of the skateboard was during the late 1960s that Californian surfers, frustrated during periods when there weren’t any good waves, started to make the first downhill skateboards. Skateboarding was one of the biggest crazes of the 1970s. Made from polyurethane, the boards soon became smaller, cheaper and available to all.

Competition skateboarding followed, although tended to mean slalom or downhill races. Some skaters started to perform tricks in empty swimming pools. This led to the development of ‘half pipes’ (the ramps needed to perform aerial stunts). These skaters weren’t interested in being the fastest, or jumping the highest, but in inventing new and dangerous stunts for the fun of it. Due to a media backlash as parents became fearful that their children would end up with broken bones, and the growing popularity of BMX, skateboarding went out of fashion for a while.

The skateboard is dead; long live the BMX bike! From the late 1970s and early 1980s onwards, BMX – tough little bikes inspired by crosscountry motorbikes in California, which could be ridden on a variety of surfaces – became very popular. Like skateboarding, BMX-ing soon became popular around the world, and bikes that had originally been developed for racing on mud were adapted for street use by people who wanted to have fun and do tricks.

Extreme sports get a soundtrack. Rather than races and competitions, the extreme sports boom of the 1980s and 1990s saw the development of ‘jams’-anarchic events where enjoying the DJs, bands and atmosphere was as important as watching the sports. Fans were able to buy videos of the skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing champions in action and the videos always contained music of a particularly raw and exciting kind which suited the danger of the sport. In fact there are now special awards given to bands and DJs for providing music for this kind of event and recently.

Moby won "Skier Musician of the Year" at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards.

The extreme sports legacy. Extreme sports clothing developed into a distinctive urban fashion look, with baggy, comfortable clothes becoming popular throughout the world. Snowboarding changed the winter sports scene, with its emphasis on a good time, and even influenced skiing: quarter pipe ski jumping involves traditional skis but uses the kind of tricks popular with snowboarders.

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Advertisers like Pepsi started to associate themselves with the cool and radical image of x-sports. In the 1990s the image of the extreme sports lifestyle was everything that big corporations wanted: youthful, edgy, dangerous and left-field. And there is a lot of money to be made from equipment, TV channels, videos and events like the annual X-Games.

The difference today from when these sports first started is that organizations and sponsors such as Red Bull, the energy drink, have turned formerly counterculture pastimes into moneymaking industries with regular televised events, offering prize money and endorsements. The Billabong Odyssey offers $100,000 for the first surfer to ride a 100-foot (30-metre) wave.

How extreme can you get? Inevitably, some people don’t think that these popular urban sports are extreme or dangerous enough, and are always experimenting with even more scary activities such as wakeboarding (a kind of stunt waterskiing), extreme skiing (going down almost-vertical off-piste slopes) and free climbing-scaling dangerously steep rocks without safety ropes. There’s also street luge, where you travel down a hill on a kind of sledge with wheels at speeds of more than 100 km/h and B.A.S.E. jumping – jumping from bridges, antennae (pylons or TV aerials), spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs). In addition to cave driving, bungee-jumping, sky surfing (jumping from a plane while standing on a surf board), and white water rafting, people are always inventing new and crazier activities. Extreme sports remain controversial because many people have seriously injured themselves, and some have even died in their search for the ultimate adrenalin high, but the universal love of adventure will always ensure the survival of X-sports.

COMREHENSION EXERCISES

1. Mark sentences T (True) or F (False) according to the text.

1.The nearest thing to a dictionary definition is a sport that is "dangerous and easy".

2.Skateboarding was one of the biggest crazes of the 1980s.

3.Some skaters started to perform tricks in empty swimming pools.

4.From the late 1970s and early 1980s onwards, BMX became very popular.

5.Fans were able to buy videos of the skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing champions in action.

6.Extreme sports clothingdevelopedinto a distinctive countryfashion look.

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7.There is a lot of money to be made from equipment, TV channels, videos and events like the annual X-Games.

8.The Billabong Odyssey offers $200,000 for the first surfer to ride a 100-foot (30-metre) wave.

9.There’s also street luge, where you travel up a hill on a kind of sledge with wheels.

10.People are always inventing new and crazier activities.

2. Order the sentences.

(___) Rather than races and competitions, the extreme sports boom of the 1980s and 1990s saw the development of ‘jams’-anarchic events where enjoying the DJs, bands and atmosphere was as important as watching the sports.

(___) Inevitably, some people don’t think that these popular urban sports are extreme or dangerous enough, and are always experimenting with even more scary activities.

(___) The most popular – and accessible – extreme sports are probably skateboarding, BMX and snowboarding, all activities that were originally developed in North America.

(___) there are now special awards given to bands and DJs for providing music for this kind of event and recently Moby won "Skier Musician of the Year" at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards.

(___) Due to a media backlash as parents became fearful that their children would end up with broken bones, and the growing popularity of BMX, skateboarding went out of fashion for a while. (___) The difference today from when these sports first started is that organizations and sponsors such as Red Bull, the energy drink, have turned formerly counterculture pastimes into moneymaking industries with regular televised events, offering prize money and endorsements. (___) Like skateboarding, BMX-ing soon became popular around the world, and bikes that had originally been developed for racing on mud were adapted for street use by people who wanted to have fun and do tricks.

(___) Extreme sports remain controversial because many people have seriously injured themselves, and some have even died in their search for the ultimate adrenalin high, but the universal love of adventure will always ensure the survival of X-sports.

(___) Snowboarding changed the winter sports scene, with its emphasis on a good time, and even influenced skiing: quarter pipe ski jumping involves traditional skis but uses the kind of tricks popular with snowboarders.

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