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My Favorite Athlete

By B28 Huang fang

If you ask who are my favorite athlete. I will answer in a second Wang Nan, a table-tennis player. Because her spirit and achievements always touch me, inspire me.

Wang Nan (born October23, 1978), is a world-class table tennis player. She uses left-hand to play, and began playing table tennis at an age of as low as 7. Her particular skills such as loop drive and notable speed made her famous in the tennis slowly. In 1994, Wang Nan won the Women’s single titles at Sweden Open. The next year she was selected for the national team and started to represent China at important competitions such as the World Table Tennis Championship, Women’s World Table Tennis Cup and Olympic Games. She won many honor and champions. She had been the leader of the Chinese women’s table-tennis team after Deng Yaping’s retirement.

In the 2002 Asian Games, she lost two competitions, winning no gold medals. Her state went to a nose-dive, because her skills had been a little poor in such a developing word. But she never gave up, she insisted on training and adjusted her attitude. Then in 2003 World Table Tennis Championship in Pairs, she won three gold medals in the end. She used her action to prove herself.

Now, she was old as a athlete. Known to the world, table-tennis is the national game of China, so there are many powerful players in Chinese national team. As an old player, Wang Nan had to be harder than other younger player. After 2004Olympic Games, she overcame cancer and got the entry ticket to attend 2008 Olympic Games. How great she was. Though she only got a gold medal of Double’s Women and a silver medal of Single’s Woman. I knew she had tried her best and created a brilliant career.

Wang Nan got 24world champions in all which contain 4 champions of Olympic Games, 3 times of Single’s champions and 4 times Double’s champions in World Table Tennis Championship and so on, these spectacular records had broken Deng Yaping’s record and she became one of athletes who has won the most championship titles in China.

I admire Wang Nan, not only because she can play table tennis well, but also her character of being optimistic, smart, perseverant, hard-working and the spirit of never giving up.
My Favourite Athlete

by Sophia B28

As we all know, there are lots of athletes in the world. And my favourite player is Deng Yaping who is famous in the table tennis field.

I have great interests in playing table tennis. So I appreciate Deng so much for her excellent skills and diligent character. Watching Deng's table tennis game really makes me exciting, because she is always full of passion and confidence in the field. It was all owing it to her top-ranking skills that helped our country won several gold medals in the Olympic Games. Absolutely she is our country’s pride and heroine.

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her hand, I admire her persistent and hard-working character very much. She has a short figure, with only 1.49 meters high. Despite the shortages of her own, she never stops intense training. And that is the reason why these incredible miracles ever created. When she was studying in Peking University, her English was extremely poor. In order to improve it, she has paid almost all her attention to English, and finally she succeeded. Besides, she also got her Master’s degree in Nottingham University, and PhD from Cambridge.

Actually she is a real giant in my mind. And that’s why I regard her as my favourite athlete. I think everyone of us should learn her hard-bitten spirits.



Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen:

The topic of my speech is ‘My Favorite Athlete’.. You may think that the athlete I’m going to mention about must be Liu Xiang or Yao Ming, the two most famous Chinese athletes. But when I think of this topic, I think of the Olympiuc Games. I want to say that, the athlete that I like best is Tang Gong Hong. She is a weightlifter. In the year 2004, she entered the 28th Olympic Games, weightlifting. She broke the world record and got the gold medal with one hundred and eighty-two point five kilograms. As we know, an adult can carry about 60 kilograms’ thing, but she can lift three times as heavy as an adult. The reason is: the skills, the toughness and the strength. At that time I saw her on television, she lifted the heaviest weight. I couldn’t believe that. She could not only lift the weight more than one hundred kilograms, but also controlled it for a few seconds. She did it! That’s human’s limit, I thought.

I was deeply impressed by Tang Gong Hong’s toughness in the games, the same as other athletes in the Olympic Games. The athletes spend half of their lives in the gymnasium. From three or four years old, till they retire from the sport life, they train nearly all daytime. For me, I can’t do so well as her, but we can do more exercise to make the Olympic spirit, ‘faster, higher, stronger’ come true. For the ‘Green Olympics’, we can do some small things to keep our hometown clean, such as, not to throw rubbish on the floor, and so on. We should also be polite to the people all ever the world. And don’t make too much noise in public areas. That’s what we can do for the Olympic Games.

So, let’s cheer for the Olympics and wish it to be successful!

That’s all. Thank you for your listening.