Email Service Notes 11th August (Celeste)

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The Olympic Games spirit

The Olympic Games has passed four days, and the performance of Chinese teams isn’t as good as we thought, compared to last two games. They couldn’t win the games or even enter the final games in some advanced items, including shoot, weightlifting, swimming, etc.. The media start hyping these losing, doubting the training system and strategies during the games, and some one blamed the athletes who didn’t win the game on social media.
To win the golden medals, is not the nature spirit of Olympic Games. The true Olympic Games spirit is about challenge and participation. Compete with others, compete with yourself, challenge the limitation of human beings and activate the massive potential of human being. Athletes break the world records in every Olympic Games, and we never know where is the line. Also, athletes from some countries which I had never heard, stand on the stage, likely say “hey, I’m here, represent my country. I know maybe I can’t get any medals, but I will try my best to play.”

“The purpose of My country sending me here is not to let me give up the game.”, said by an unknown marathon athlete who was injured during the game, but still finished the whole race, which is the true spirit of the Olympic Games.

We should pay respects to every athlete, who trained much harder than we can image to participate the Olympic Games. Hope every athlete have a good game.

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The Olympic Games spirit

The Olympic Games have gone on for four days, and the performance of the Chinese teams isn’t as good as we thought, compared to the last two games. They didn’t win the games or even enter the final games in some advanced items, (what does this mean?) including shooting, weightlifting, swimming, etc.. The media started hyping these losses, doubting the training system and strategies during these games, and someone shamed the athletes who didn’t win the game/gold/gold medal on social media.
To win the gold medals is not the true spirit of the Olympic Games. The true Olympic spirit is about challenge and participation. To compete with others, compete with yourself, challenge the limitation of human beings and activate the massive potential  (what does this mean?) of human beings. Athletes break world records in every Olympic Games, and we never know where is the line. (what does this mean?) Also, athletes from some countries which I had never heard of, stand on the stage, and likely say “Hey, I’m here, representing my country. I know maybe I can’t get any medals, but I will try my best to play.”

“The purpose of my country sending me here is not to let me give up the game,” said by an unknown marathon runner/athlete who was injured during the game, but still finished the whole race, which is the true spirit of the Olympic Games.

We should pay respect to every athlete, who trained much harder than we can image to participate in the Olympic Games. I hope every athlete has a good game.

Hi, Chen!

When you’re in class next, let’s review your writing!

– Celeste