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What is your attitude towards extreme sports? Answer the following questions.

1. Is it good/bad to participate in extreme sports?

2. Do you agree that all of them are sports?

3. What attracts people to extreme sports?

4. Have you ever tried any unusual sports?

5. What qualities or strengths do people need to participate in extreme sports?

6. What is your opinion on taking risks?

Marathon.

Read the text and choose the correct answer.

What’s the farthest distance you have ever run at one time? Can you imagine running more than twenty six miles? Marathon runners do this. They perform one of the most difficult tasks in all of sports. The marathon is the longest race in all sports. It is twenty six miles three hundred eighty five yards (about forty two kilometers). Why that number? This is the exact distance between two ancient Greek cities. The race recalls the run of a messenger from Marathon to Athens to report that the Greeks had won a battle. When he arrived, he fell dead. The marathon is always the last event at the Summer Olympic Games. One of the most unusual marathoner was Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia. He won the Olympic marathon in Rome in nineteen sixty – he ran barefoot! Recently the marathon has become one of the most popular events for runners.

1. Twenty six miles are nearly equal to

a) 42 km b) 32 km

2. The Greek messenger reported on

a) the victory b) the defeat

3. Bikila won the Olympic marathon at the Olympiad in Rome in

a) 1916 b) 1960

4. When Bikila won the Olympic marathon in Rome he was

a) in shoes b) without shoes

If you really want to win, cheat!

Famous (cheating) moments in sport.

In which sports are the most cases of cheating? How do people cheat in these sports? Read the article and find out how the people cheated.

Football.

Argentina were playing with England in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. In the 52^nd minute the Argentina captain, Diego Maradona, scored a goal. The English players protested but the referee gave the goal. However, TV cameras showed that Maradona had scored the goal with his hand! Maradona said the next day, “It was partly the hand of Maradona, and partly the hand of God”. Later in the game Maradona scored another goal and Argentina won 2-1. They went on to win the World Cup.

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