[00:01.97]Module 12 YAO MING
[00:05.39]UNIT 2 The Olympic Games
[00:08.80]1 Listen and read. Then say.
[00:13.06]The Olympic Games started in Greece
[00:15.04]more than 2,700 years ago.In those days,
[00:19.98]it was held in the city of Olympia of Greece.
[00:24.29]Athletes and artists would meet
[00:26.50]for a festival there every four years.
[00:29.94]This festival was for the king of the gods.
[00:33.34]The events at the sports festival
[00:35.72]included wrestling, boxing and running.
[00:39.62]The festivals were so important
[00:42.07]to the Greeks that they would stop any fighting
[00:45.21]for three months.
[00:47.04]The athletes had to travel a long way
[00:49.68]to Olympic so they didn't have time to fight!
[00:53.64]However, when the athletes returned home,
[00:56.36]they started fighting again!
[00:59.31]An emperor stopped the games many years later.
[01:02.90]About 1,500 years after this, a Frenchman,
[01:07.59]Baron Pierre,started the Olympic Games again.
[01:12.42]We call these games the modern Olympic Games.
[01:16.04]Today, athletes from all over the world
[01:18.97]meet in a city every four years,
[01:21.82]to compete for two weeks.
[01:24.50]Every athlete in the Olympic Games,
[01:26.93]hopes to win a gold medal.
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