2024年4月2日发(作者：登雅韶)
北师版-必修4-Unit11-课后-foucusonreading-p73
Reading Between the Rings
The Olympic Games is always a big event but when the
Games returned to its birthplace in Athens, Greece, in 2004, there
was even more excitement than usual. This explains why the city
was packed with more journalists than sportsmen, all of them
competing, not for medals, but for the best pictures and the most
news worthy stories.
Because every person sees things in their own way, the
stories coming out of Athens were often very different, even
when the facts they covered were exactly the same.
For example, when the Chinese team won a record high of
62 medals, the Chinese journalists recorded China's reaction as
one of pleasant surprises". On the other side of the world,
journalists wrote about people's "stunned" reactions to China's
success.
When it came to the reasons behind China's success, the
Xinhua News Agency said it was the fruit of "years of effort". The
Observer, a UK magazine, however, put China's success down to
"the vast sum of money" that the Chinese government had put
into creating medal winners. "They have money, they have
people, they have pride; and what they don't have, they can
either copy to perfection or just buy." wrote Tracey Holmes for
CNN.
Some journalists described China as a "sports tsar" — a
country to be feared by the traditional sports super-states like
the US — and Filip Bondy of NBC Sports wrote, "The joke in
Athens is that there is no reason to show up at the Beijing
Olympics in 2008 because there will be no medals left — even
the medal stands are being built to fit the locals." And in the
Chinese reports? The media remained modest. "China will
perform even better in the Beijing Games but isn't ready to
compete with the United States for the top place," wrote China
Daily. We'll just have to wait and see.
2024年4月2日发(作者：登雅韶)
北师版-必修4-Unit11-课后-foucusonreading-p73
Reading Between the Rings
The Olympic Games is always a big event but when the
Games returned to its birthplace in Athens, Greece, in 2004, there
was even more excitement than usual. This explains why the city
was packed with more journalists than sportsmen, all of them
competing, not for medals, but for the best pictures and the most
news worthy stories.
Because every person sees things in their own way, the
stories coming out of Athens were often very different, even
when the facts they covered were exactly the same.
For example, when the Chinese team won a record high of
62 medals, the Chinese journalists recorded China's reaction as
one of pleasant surprises". On the other side of the world,
journalists wrote about people's "stunned" reactions to China's
success.
When it came to the reasons behind China's success, the
Xinhua News Agency said it was the fruit of "years of effort". The
Observer, a UK magazine, however, put China's success down to
"the vast sum of money" that the Chinese government had put
into creating medal winners. "They have money, they have
people, they have pride; and what they don't have, they can
either copy to perfection or just buy." wrote Tracey Holmes for
CNN.
Some journalists described China as a "sports tsar" — a
country to be feared by the traditional sports super-states like
the US — and Filip Bondy of NBC Sports wrote, "The joke in
Athens is that there is no reason to show up at the Beijing
Olympics in 2008 because there will be no medals left — even
the medal stands are being built to fit the locals." And in the
Chinese reports? The media remained modest. "China will
perform even better in the Beijing Games but isn't ready to
compete with the United States for the top place," wrote China
Daily. We'll just have to wait and see.