奥运词汇：
全能冠军：all-round champion
亚军：running-up; second; silver medalist
世界纪录保持者：world-record holder
运动员：athlete; sportsman
种子选手：seeded player; seed
优秀选手：top-ranking/topnotch athlete
跨栏比赛：hurdles; hurdle race
竞走：walking; walking race
体操：gymnastics
自由体操：floor/free exercises
单杠：horizontal bar
双杠：parallel bars
高低杠：uneven bars; high-low bars
吊环：rings
跳马：vaulting horse

奥运故事：

Winning With Mismatched Skis

    A rarity among biathletes, Myriam Bédard competed as a figure skater until she was twelve years old. When women's biathlon was introduced to the Olympics at the 1992 Winter Games, Bédard earned a bronze medal at 15km. In Lillehammer, she took a gold medal in the same event. Five days later she entered the 7.5km race, a distance at which she was the reigning world champion.After the race began, Bédard realised that her skis were mismatched. By mistake, she had grabbed one ski from one pair and another from a different pair. The left ski was improperly waxed and she struggled with it throughout the race. Nevertheless, she managed to better the time of Svetlana Paramygina by a mere 1.1 seconds and win her second gold medal.

拿错滑板的冠军

    在现代冬季两项运动员中，米丽娅姆·贝达德是个另类，她的运动生涯是以一位花样滑冰运动员开始的，直到12岁的时候，才开始现代冬季两项的训练。1992年的法国阿尔贝维尔冬季奥运会上，女子现代冬季两项才正式引入奥运会的比赛项目，米丽娅姆就参加了角逐，并在15公里比赛中获得了一枚铜牌。在1994年的挪威利勒哈默尔冬季奥运会上，她在这个项目中取得突破，夺得金牌。五天后，她又参加了7.5公里项目的竞争，这个项目上她在世界上处于绝对领先地位，但是直到开始后，她才发现她拿错了她的滑雪板。两支滑板一大一小，不是一副。左脚上的滑板拿错了，这让她在整个比赛过程中非常别扭。尽管这样，米丽娅姆还是以领先第二名1.1秒的成绩夺取金牌。

Quite unexpectedly

    Fermin Cacho Ruiz of Spain was not one of the favourites in the 1,500m in Barcelona. However, the final was run at an unusually slow pace (the slowest in 36 years) and Cacho knew how to take advantage. With half a lap to go, he burst into the lead, opened a ten-metre gap and, with a delirious crowd screaming his name, held off a late sprint by Rachid El Bashir of Morocco. Cacho was the first Spanish runner ever to win a gold medal. Four years later, at the Atlanta Olympics, Cacho proved that his Barcelona victory was not a fluke by earning another medal, this time a silver. He is one of only three men to win two Olympic medals at 1,500m.

相当意外

    1992年西班牙巴塞罗那夏季奥运会上，西班牙本土选手费明‧卡卓‧路易兹并不是1500米长跑的热门选手，但是这次奥运会1500米的成绩出乎意料的低（36年来的最慢成绩）。这为卡卓创造了良好的比赛条件，他能始终紧跟领跑者，尽管不是夺冠热门，但是卡卓很善于利用比赛条件，在还剩下半圈的时候，他突然加速，冲入第一集团，并取得十米的领先位置，在全场观众的尖叫声中，费明‧卡卓‧路易兹为西班牙夺得了第一枚奥运田径金牌。四年后的美国亚特兰大夏季奥运会上，卡卓再次向世人展现了自己的实力，证明在巴塞罗纳的表演并不是昙花一现。在美国的这届奥运会上，他再次在1500米长跑比赛中取得银牌，他也是奥运历史上三位能在两届奥运会1500米长跑比赛中获得奖牌的运动员之一。