Question

Athletics in Jamaica
Jamaica has produced some of the world's best
athletes, including stars such as Usain Bolt and
they work and train together as a team, so they
produce better resuts.
Veronica Campbell-Brown. s this success party
due to one event - the Jamaica Schools
Championships?
The Championships have turned many young students
into stars, but those who are most talented as aduts
don't always win as young teenagers. Olympic gold
medalist Usain Bot, for example, failed to win a
The four-day Championships have taken place
every year since 1910. Nearly 200 school
single race at the Championships as an under-15
students take part in front of an audience of
over 30,000 people. The event is also shown
runner. oympic champion veronica Campbelksrown
was aways easily beaten in the lbwer-age groups
on ive TV, and the whole country watches what
is sometimes called Jamaica's min-olympics.
before finally winning as an older student
Nathaniel Day, a young runner from Britain, has
The competitors take it very seriously, and
studied and trained in Jamaica for the last two years
Young athletes here get experience of being on TV
they all want to win. Classmates and tormer
students also come to support and encourage
from the age of 12, he says, 'so when they re older,
they aren't scared of big Occasions and they perform
their schools.
School coach Dwayne Simpson has trained many
young stars. He beleves the Championships have
an important role in the devebpment of young
athletes. They are the biggest schools' compettion
well. Ih the UK, athletes don't perform in front of the
cameras untl they're adults, and sometimes they
find it hard to deal with.' According to Nathaniel,
the Championships also give young athletes a goal.
Because it's such a big event, it gives them an
n the worlo, he says, and other countrnes are now
boking to copy them. He aso beleves that the
idea of how exciting it is to perform in an Olympic
Championships give young athletes a reason to
practise. They want to do well for their school, so
stadium. it helps them develop the ambition to
become champions.
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Answer 1

1. A.

2. C

3. A (nu sunt sigur)

4. B

5. B