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1. She’s a long-distance runner. She won a medal last year for the 1,500 metres. She’s won a lot of in the last five years and has them all in a glass cabinet at her house.
2. Were many new records at the last Olympics?
3. He’s doing a next week - running 42 kilometres! That’s 26 miles!
4. Who the world record for the 1,000 metres these days? Is it a Russian?
5. His national team failed to for the World Cup so he’s supporting Brazil instead.
6. Last year, our team the final for the first time in 10 years but we lost.
7. My team got in the second of the competition. We were very disappointed it happened at such an early stage.
8. All Olympic sports are highly ; everyone has one ambition - to win gold.
9. Thousands of protested loudly at the decision of the to give their team captain a red card.
10. The world’s best can run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds.