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By Jim Stevenson
Washington
11 January 2006

American speedskater Chris Witty 1 seems to have accomplished 2 what many Olympic athletes dream about.  She has competed in three Olympics, winning a gold, silver and bronze medal.  VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on this veteran member of the U.S. Olympic team as she seeks to win again in Turin, Italy.

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Chris Witty   
  

Chris Witty, 30, will not have to prove she is one of the best speedskaters at the Olympics.  The one person she is trying to impress is herself.

"I won a gold medal," she said.  "And I was really satisfied after 2002 because that was my dream ever since I was a little kid.  And to finally have it was really satisfying.  But at the same time I thought I was too young to retire.  And I still love to skate and I still love to compete.  So I kept going."

But the quest 3 to continue has not been easy for Witty.

"These last four years have been really tough," she explained.  "I have not performed very well.  I have also had a lot of personal things going on - family issues, personal issues; things that I need to work out.  I messed around with cycling for a little bit in 2003.  That did not go very well.  So I came back full time as a speedskater.  I worked out an injury last year.  So last year was not great.  So then here I am now, stepping outside the [national team] program.  And I feel like a new person."

Chris Witty says the interesting aspect of speedskating is the fact that U.S. athletes are not locked into one specific way of training.

"I have been around a long time," she said.  "But the approach that the coaches take is go back to basics and keep building from there.  And it has been incredible 4 so far.  It has been a lot of fun.  But I think that shows the depth of our team.  If you have only one program, one team, it is hard to fit everybody within that program and that one structure.  Obviously you have exceptions to the rule.  To me it is an advantage now for speedskating to have programs outside of [the] national team.  If this program is not working for you, you can still go, let's say, to the Utah Olympic Oval 5 program, which I have done."

Witty also likes the fact that the United States seems to again be the team to beat.

"I want to say we are cutting edge in a lot of ways," she said.  "The Europeans, they looked at what we did in 2002.  We had NASA helping 6 us with polish for our blades.  We had Nike swift suits.  We had so much going for us.  We have a lot of great team atmosphere.  So you see like, let's say, the Russians wanted to have sort of that team atmosphere that we had.  The Europeans are looking to us now to sort of catch up and keep up with the sort of innovations 7 that we have brought."

Chris Witty is hoping the Europeans and the rest of the world will just be trying to keep up with her and the U.S. speedskaters at the Turin Olympics.



adj.机智的,风趣的
  • Her witty remarks added a little salt to the conversation.她的妙语使谈话增添了一些风趣。
  • He scored a bull's-eye in their argument with that witty retort.在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害。
adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的
  • Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
  • Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
n.寻求,搜索,追求
  • Man will suffer many disappointments in his quest for truth.人类在探索真理过程中必然会遭受挫折。
  • His quest for perfection is relentless.他不断追求完美。
adj.难以置信的,不可信的,极好的,大量的
  • Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
  • Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。
n. 椭圆,椭圆形跑道;adj. 卵形的,椭圆形的
  • She has a lovely oval face.她长着一张可爱的椭圆脸。
  • The shape of the earth is an oval.地球的形状是个椭圆形。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
改革( innovation的名词复数 ); 新观念; 新事物; 新设施
  • The engineer has many technical innovations to his credit. 这位工程师有许多项技术革新的成就。
  • This year's copy contains no innovations over those in the past. 今年的版本没有不同于过去的新花样。
学英语单词
a fatal disease
air elutriation
alembications
anbury
angle grain
anisotropy of seismic wave
arm a lead
back pressure operation
c.a.d.
carcter
cassia augustifolia vahl.
ch.d
charge for the depreciation of fixed asset
cheap edition
co-agency
cough syncope
development-first
dharm
diabetic nephropathy
Don Juanesque
doo-doos
drahthaar
embarkation, embarkment
enquad
first level definition
flids
futurable
Gamlan shales
Goldsmith-bankers
harsh respirstion
head hit
heterosexual person
Holocaust denial
hyperboloid of revolution of one sheet
in contradistinction to
in-
in-line gun
Inter-Services Intelligence
intermitten operation
jacobsons
juvenile justice
Limbang
london-area
lumbee
machine information retrieval
magneto-optical effect
mingier
Morris water maze
N-acetyl-1-naphthylamine
navy time
Orbivirus-like
overcomplete
permachrome
pkc
plagidacite
plankton pulse
polar cap absorption event
portmanry
possum belly
prairie crocus
preempted
primoscope
propipette
pseudopatients
pulled for
quasi-steady state
radiator flap handle
real interest rate parity
Rolle
roller cold header
ruhle
scurf skin
shonda
sialogogue
silylidyne
Simancas
single drug
sliding cradle
Slip-Wheel
spraying condenser
steel bar mechanical connecting
strong's dysentery
subaerationflotation machine
super-heterodyne radio set
superadd
Sǒdusu
t-butyl
thin ribbed plate
thiocarbamide
time correlation
town-houses
transverse muscle
trickments
trivialist
truncations
turbine blade
turn-signal control lamp
unsharpen
vacation day
warranty of goods safety
win one's colours