Week 22: Belgian athletes

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Presenter

Hi I'm Natalie and welcome to Talking Sport.

Today we will be hearing about athletes training for the Olympics in

the Arctic and we will be learning the phrases team unity(團隊團結) and

competitive edge.

London is known for its cold and wet weather but some athletes are

not just training in the rain to prepare for the London 2012

Olympics!

This week BBC reporter Kieran Fox has been following the Belgian

athletics team, who have been to Iceland as part of their training.

Let's hear from Kieran.

Listen for what the athletes are hoping to build and listen out for

the phrase competitive edge(競爭優勢).

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Landjokull - a landscape carved from ice, but these are not Arctic(北極)

explorers(探險) this is a group of sprinters preparing for the 2012 summer

Olympics. Athletics(田徑) is of course an individual(個人l sport, but when it

comes to the Olympics individuals compete for their country, for a

team. By coming here to Iceland and these harsh(惡劣) inhospitable(荒涼)

conditions(條件) the Belgian runners have to work for each other. They

hope they’ll build enough team unity to give them the competitive

edge come London 2012.

Presenter

Listen again for what the athletes are hoping to build and the

phrase competitive edge