[00:00.88]Unit 6 The Spirit of Sports
[00:05.02]Expansion 6
[00:10.54]Exercise 2
[00:13.01]Tony is with me today in our studio.
[00:16.56]He is a retired national gymnast.
[00:19.61]He had been a successful gymnast
[00:21.52]and had won a lot of medals.
[00:24.00]Now he is a coach in a primary school.
[00:27.62]He likes gymnastics so much that
[00:30.24]he wants to help more children learn it.
[00:33.26]Today,he is here to talk to our listeners
[00:36.60]about his sport.
[00:37.84]Tony, many people like watching the gymnastics
[00:41.77]event during all kinds of games.
[00:43.87]It's a sport that requires strength,
[00:46.29]skills and art.
[00:47.99]But many people aren't quite sure
[00:50.14]about the rules of the sport.
[00:52.68]Could you tell our listeners something
[00:54.81]about the gymnastics events at the Olympics?
[01:01.80]Exercise 3
[01:04.65]First of all, Olympic gymnastics are divided
[01:07.22]into two types,
[01:08.64]artistic and rhythmic.
[01:11.12]Both men and women compete in the artistic
[01:14.88]event,and only women compete
[01:16.41]in the rhythmic event.
[01:18.03]Could you explain to our listeners
[01:19.43]the main differences between the artistic
[01:21.56]and rhythmic gymnastics?
[01:25.39]Certainly.
[01:26.31]As I said earlier,both men and women
[01:29.29]compete in artistic gymnastics
[01:31.68]and they use different types of equipment.
[01:34.69]Men compete in six different events
[01:37.05]and women compete in four.
[01:39.34]Do gymnasts compete in teams
[01:41.53]or in individuals in the artistic event?
[01:45.10]Both teams and individuals compete
[01:47.53]in the artistic event.
[01:49.07]I see.
[01:50.26]Many people love watching gymnastics,
[01:53.24]but they find the scoring
[01:54.86]difficult to understand.
[01:57.31]How does the scoring work?
[01:59.68]Scores are given based on the difficulty of
[02:01.89]the routine and the performance of the gymnast.
[02:04.52]Then their scores are added up to
[02:07.15]give a final score.
[02:08.19]The team with the most points wins.
[02:11.14]Now, what about rhythmic gymnastics?
[02:14.72]This event is only for women
[02:16.34]and it combines gymnastics and dance.
[02:20.29]And could you tell me
[02:21.63]if this is an individual or team event?
[02:25.60]It's both.
[02:26.60]Individuals and teams perform a routine
[02:28.94]according music with different objects,
[02:32.03]like a ball or a rope.
[02:34.43]How do you know who the winner is?
[02:36.78]The judges score the individuals
[02:38.93]and teams for the difficulty of the routine
[02:40.98]and how artistic it is.
[02:43.80]The person or team with the highest score wins.
[02:47.57]Thanks Tony for taking the time to
[02:49.50]come to our studio.
[02:51.38]Let's go now to the artistic gymnastcs events
[02:54.77]in Athens...
[02:57.78]Roundup 6
[02:59.82]Exercise 2
[03:02.08]At the 2004 Olympics, Liu Xiang won the gold
[03:06.10]medal in the men's 110 meters hurdles
[03:09.41]with a world-record time of 12.91 seconds.
[03:13.82]This was a unbelievable success because China
[03:17.88]had only won one men's athletics medal before-
[03:22.60]Zhu Jianhua's bronze medal in the high jump
[03:25.52]in Los Angeles in 1984.
[03:28.66]A Chinese male athlete had never won
[03:31.22]an Olympic gold medal before.
[03:33.98]Xing Huina achieved another notable success
[03:37.18]in Athens when she won the gold medal in the
[03:40.45]women's 10,000 race with a personal best time
[03:44.22]of 30 minutes 24.36 seconds.
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