Joy in Cuba for gold medals at London Olympics

 HAVANA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Cuban people are very happy with joy after hearing the first two gold medals from two athletes on Friday in London Olympics.

On Friday, Shooter Leuris Pupo grabbed Cuba's first gold medal of the London Olympics with a victory in the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol. While, Idalys Ortiz of Cuba beat Mika Sugimoto of Japan to take the women's 78kg judo¹ gold medal at the Olympic Games on Friday.

On the stress in Cuba, the people are very happy with joy the good news.

Lazaro Gonzalez said, "Pupo is good and set a new Olympic record. We expected a medal from him, may be silver or bronze, but he won gold at last.

"Judoka Ortiz is the best and should get the gold medal and the Cuba's people are enjoying that victory. We know that she also enjoys the victory with her family because she is worthy² of champion," said Luis Matos.

While, Felix Sanchez said, "The fight of the judoka was very exciting because Ortiz is a woman with good results and really deserved the gold medal."

Yordanys Luis said that with regard to the judoka I think she deserved it and her coach is one of the best in Cuba.

She added, "these two gold medals lifted the morale³ of the delegation⁴ and both athletes had an excellent performance."

Jesus Fuentes said, "it is really nice to be obtained two gold medals that are very important for Cuba, and it will spirit up the other athletes continuing to have success in the Olympics."

"These two medals are very important to break the ice and we'll get others more. I expect Cuba will gain 6 or 7 more gold medals," Edgar Gonzalez said.

With these two gold medals Cuba climbed to 14th in the overall medal table and is country of Latin America and the Caribbean better located, with two gold and silver and one bronze.

Pupo, 35, born in eastern Cuban province of Holguin, has participated in four Olympic Games. His gold medal is the result of a rising Olympic career, also is a historic gold for Cuba's shooting sport. It was also Pupo's first medal in four Olympics journey. In Sydney 2000, Pupo achieved the ninth position, in Athens 2004 he ended in the eighth position and four years ago in Beijing 2008 he achieved the seventh position.

Idalys Ortiz, born in 1989 in Pinar del Rio, claimed Cuba's first Olympic judo title for 12 years. She won bronze at 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She has won first positions for Pan American Judo Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

1 judo   

n.柔道

参考例句：

• The judo is a kind of fighting sport.柔道是一种对抗性体育活动。
• Which is more important in judo, strength or techniques?柔道运动中，力量和技术哪个更重要？

2 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

3 morale   

n.道德准则，士气，斗志

参考例句：

• The morale of the enemy troops is sinking lower every day.敌军的士气日益低落。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。

4 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。