Номер 4, страница 98 - гдз по английскому языку 5-11 класс учебник Latham-Koenig, Oxenden

Ten point one.

One.

Off and running, brilliant start from Lorraine Stewart. She's flying out. Browning's getting into her stride. She's trying to chase her down. Now Harris is coming up in lane six. She's coming up on Stewart. She's coming hard, but Stewart is going to get there. She dips for the line. Ten seventy-two. Stewart takes the gold and a new championship record.

Two.

Brian Mark's to putt now and he he's had a tough time in this competition. Nothing has gone right for him. And we haven't seen him make a long putt in a while. He would love this to go in for a birdie and try to get his round back on track. It must be thirty, thirty-two feet with a slight break to the left, and he needs enough speed on it. He's hit it well. It's looking good. Come on, come on. And he makes it. That was beautiful.

Three.

Surely the attack is going to come soon. And Anderson can't afford to wait any longer. She doesn't have a sprint finish. She needs to go now. Coming to the foot of the final climb of the day. Eight kilometers at an average gradient of twelve percent. This could be very interesting. And she's gone. Fernandez is gone. Ryan Carter is trying to follow, but the gap is opening. And Fernandez has twenty meters. Thirty meters, and she looks round once and she knows this is her chance.

Four.

The Cuban has got the arm lock. Assata desperately trying to keep his elbow in turned. Oh, that was a moment of real danger. He needs to settle himself here. He might have hurt his arm. Thirty seconds to go now. This is fraught with danger. Every time you take a step towards your opponent, you put yourself in danger, but you've got to take that step to win the gold.

Five.

What has happened to Australia? They cannot contain Brazil. They're trying to come back at them, but Australia have lost their rhythm. Very consistent throwing from Brazil. Ah, there's another three pointer. That's a nice move. They're running away with this now. Only a few seconds left. And that's it. It's two more points for Brazil and it's all over. Brazil are safely through to the semi-final seventy-one to forty.

Six.

Fantastic start from Ivanova. Triple Salchow, triple toe, great elevation on both jumps. And again, amazing elevation. That was a flick. She looks so relaxed. She's completely in control here. Triple flick, double toe. Oh, a little bit of a stumble, but she comes out of it well. Last jump coming up now. It's a double axle and oh, oh no. She's down on the ice, and she's back up, but that's going to be the end of her hopes for a medal. That is a disaster for Ivanova.

Ten point two.

Interviewer: So Ollie, have you always been interested in sport?

Ollie: Yes, I have. I, um, was always a huge sports fan as a child, particularly tennis and football. They were the ones that I played. Mhm. Um, my mother was a tennis player, my dad was a footballer. Um, so though those were the sports that I got into. But I always loved watching most sports. My grandfather, uh, both of my grandfathers were huge fans of sports. So watched a lot, um, and uh, and then just became very curious about the language of television, sometimes even more than the action of the sport.

Interviewer: Mhm. Do you do a lot of sport or exercise yourself?

Ollie: I could tell you yes, but that would be a lie. Um, especially about the exercise bit. I do probably not enough exercise. I, um, I play football, I play tennis a little bit, um, but that's about it. And I would never, because I'm a sports commentator, I would never call myself an athlete because I know what an athlete really is and it isn't me.

Interviewer: What made you want to be a commentator?

Ollie: When I was a child, I commentated on everything that was happening. That that's the thing that unites all sports commentators. When you go back to their childhood, they're the ones that commentated when people were playing football in the playground. Mhm. Uh, I, when I was playing sport in the back garden, I was adding a running commentary to it. I made cassette tapes that I've still got when I was eleven years old of radio broadcasts of pretend football matches. So I always had this love of language. My grandfather was somebody who absolutely loved words. And I think in my family we grew up with a a passion, a curiosity for language. So that was always there, and then when my love of sport developed, I think the two married together very nicely.

Interviewer: What's your favorite sport to commentate on?

Ollie: My number one is definitely gymnastics, which I love because of the variety. There's just so many different forms of gymnastics. Um, it could be trampolining or aerobics or rhythmic gymnastics. That's beautiful and and exciting to do so many different things.

Interviewer: Do you have to be an expert in all the sports you commentate on?

Ollie: There are some sports that you have to have extremely strong knowledge of. Gymnastics is full of technical moves, complex rules, complex scoring. You have to know the vocabulary, you have to understand it. I'm sure. There are other sports that are definitely something you can commentate without being an expert. For example, uh, a race. Now, if you're doing a race in swimming, in horse racing, in athletics, it's still just a race. The most important thing is tell the story of the race.

Interviewer: What what would you say is the most difficult thing about commentating?

Ollie: Shutting up is definitely the hardest thing about commentating, because pictures are beautiful. Sound is beautiful. The sound of a crowd is a beautiful thing. The sound of a player screaming with excitement when they hit the winning point is wonderful. It's very easy as a commentator to forget that there are pictures. And we use a phrase in the broadcasting world, we say, let the picture breathe. And I think that's really important to do.

Interviewer: That's so interesting. Um, do you ever disagree with the referee or the judges when you're commentating?

Ollie: Absolutely. But the important thing is do not destroy them. As a broadcaster, do not attack referees or judges. They are human beings. They are doing a job. They get it right sometimes, they get it wrong sometimes. Unless a referee is obviously cheating, which is very, very, very unusual, then you have to be understanding and kind because athletes make mistakes, referees make mistakes, commentators make mistakes.

Interviewer: So have you ever seen anyone, a player or an athlete, cheating during an event?

Ollie: Very occasionally. I would say that most athletes actually have great integrity. They are very honest people. It's rare that it happens. When it does happen, it can be quite difficult, actually. You have to choose your words very carefully, because maybe to me or to you, it's very obviously cheating, but it's not to them. Sometimes a footballer dives. But did they dive or did they fall? And actually, I it's not my job to try to inhabit the mind of the athlete and tell you what they were thinking at the time. Where it is also difficult is maybe if an athlete has returned after a ban because they had taken drugs or they had cheated, then you have to refer to that ban, but it's important not to be stuck in the past too much.

Interviewer: What do you think commentary adds to the experience of a television viewer?

Ollie: Commentary should be furniture, not wallpaper. I think that's a term that we use quite often in broadcasting. It should make it easier for the viewer to place themselves in the action. It shouldn't just be decoration, it shouldn't be something that distracts you from the really important things. If you use too many words, if you start to tell meaningless stories, then the viewer will switch off from the things that you're saying. I think the point of commentary is to provide drama. It is to help explain why things have happened and it's also to introduce new viewers to a sport.

Interviewer: I see. What are the most memorable moments of your career so far?

Ollie: You never forget your first Olympic games. The feeling of arriving at the stadium, staring up at the Olympic rings, probably the most famous logo in all of sport. You look at it and you realize this is what you are doing. You are part of the Olympic movement and that's incredible. And the Olympic Park is full of energy. The atmosphere is unbelievable there. And you get to broadcast the greatest moments of people's careers at the Olympic games, which is an incredible feeling.

Ten point three.

Speaker 1: Can you tell us about one really special moment that you remember?

Speaker 2: There was one very special moment for me that happened in the Rio two thousand sixteen Olympics. Sometimes it's not the biggest moments. They're not always the most memorable. Sometimes it's small things that have a particular story. And there was a Norwegian wrestler. A gentleman called Stig Andre Berger. He was thirty three. It was his third Olympic Games. And he had never even come close to winning a medal in his previous attempts. He was a very good wrestler but he had never come close. Just before the Olympic Games, he discovered that his mother had terminal cancer. And he made it home from the qualification tournament for the Olympic Games in time to see her for the last time. And he promised her in that last meeting that he would win her an Olympic medal. And we got to the Olympic Games in Rio a few months later. And every match he won by the most narrow of margins. It was so tight and so close. And then he won the crucial match that gave him a chance to go for the bronze medal. And when he won that match, he looked up into the sky and he just pointed upwards. And I realized that this was now the time to start telling that story because I didn't want to start telling it too early or make it too sentimental. So I mentioned the story about his mother. And then he won the bronze medal. And it was so close and at the end his coach he's ran he burst into tears. His coaches ran on. They were three of them lying on the ground holding each other crying. And I was able to put into words that story of the promise he'd made to his mother. I felt very honored to be the person trusted to tell his story.

Speaker 1: Wow, what a moment that must have been. Thank you so much, Ollie, and thank you for sharing that story with us.