Elite Performers

(A) Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter and currently the fastest human in the
world. He is the first person to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world
records, and has won eight Olympic gold medals. He was born in 1986 in
Trelawny, Jamaica, has a brother and a sister, and his parents ran the local
grocery store in a rural area. Bolt spent his time playing cricket and football in
the street with his brother. It was clear from an early age that he was special,
when at the age of 15, he was 1.96 m tall and won the 2002 World Junior
Championships, which were held in Jamaica. He became involved in problems
through no fault of his own, when a Jamaican 4 x 100 metres team-mate
retrospectively tested positive for a banned substance, and caused his 2008
Beijing gold medal to be stripped.
(B) Eldrick Tont, or Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer who is
among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest-
paid athletes in the world for several years. He first reached the number one
position in the world rankings in June 1997, less than a year after turning pro,
and throughout the 2000s, Woods was the main force in golf. He became
involved in problems when he admitted infidelity, and after many extramarital
indiscretions were revealed, he suffered a loss of form, and his ranking
gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011. He will forever be
remembered as the youngest man and the first African American to win the U.S.
Masters, but it seems his best days are now ancient history.
(C) Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist.
Armstrong is the 1993 professional world champion, and won the Tour de
France a record seven times. At age 16, Armstrong began competing as a
triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990.
In 1996, he had potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. After his
recovery, he returned to cycling in 1998, he was a member of the US Postal
team between 1998 and 2005, when he won his Tour de France titles, as well
as a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics. However, in 2012, he was
banned from sanctioned Olympic sports for life as a result of long-term doping
offenses. As part of those problems, all results going back to August 1998,
including his seven Tour wins, were voided.
(D) Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. The Women's
Tennis Association has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight occasions.
She became the world No. 1 for the first time in 2002. Williams was born in
Michigan, USA and is the youngest of five sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea and Isha
Price, and Venus, who is also a famous professional tennis player. Williams
started playing tennis at the age of three. Her father, Richard, home-schooled
Serena and her sister Venus, and stopped sending his daughters to national
junior tennis tournaments when Williams was 10, since he wanted them to take
it slow and focus on school work. Experiences of racism also drove this
experience, as Richard Williams had heard white parents talk about the
Williams sisters in a derogatory manner during tournaments. During her career,
she has had many successes and failures, and on 19 April 2017, she revealed
that she was 20 weeks pregnant, the timing reflecting the fact that she would
have been roughly eight-weeks pregnant when she won the Australian Open.
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Questions
Which athlete
1) experienced discrimination at an early age?

 A
 B
 C
 D

2) was severely affected by a domestic situation?

 A
 B
 C
 D

3) was a victim of someone else's dishonesty?

 A
 B
 C
 D

4) lost everything they had worked for ?

 A
 B
 C
 D

5) was physically impressive at an early age?

  A
 B
 C
 D

6) overcame a serious medical situation?

 A
 B
 C
 D

7) was successful while suffering a medical handicap?

 A
 B
 C
 D

8) has a famous sibling?

 A
 B
 C
 D

9) was financially very successful?

 A
 B
 C
 D
10) came from a humble background?
 A
 B
 C
 D