墨尔本PTE素材库——Russia Ban

墨尔本PTE素材库——Russia Ban

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这篇报道主要讲述了由于俄罗斯索契冬奥会期间的兴奋剂丑闻，里约奥运会禁止俄罗斯运动员参加。报道首先简述了兴奋剂丑闻是如何发生的，以及国际奥委会和国际反兴奋剂组织对此进行的处理。同时还讨论了支持和反对禁赛这一处理决定的双方意见。

澳大利亚语言学院，定期会整理一些非常具有参考意义的PTE Academic素材，给大家平时复习PTE提供大量的素材，也能帮助大家提升英语能力！那么，如此定期的训练有什么好处呢？由于这些话题的种类符合PTE官方所给出的Question Criteria，所以对于各位PTE考生而言，PTE素材库中的素材，是大家练习、提升自己语言能力，提高PTE各种题型答题技巧的绝佳原材料。

大家可以把这篇文章当做一篇Re-tell Lecture的练习材料，尝试回答以下这个问题：

• Why Russian athletes are banned from the Rio Olympics?

【Key Vocabulary】

kick off 开始

athlete n.运动员

ban v. 禁止

investigator n. 调查人员，研究者

performance enhancing drug 提高成绩的药物（兴奋剂）

doping n. 服用兴奋剂

cheating n. 欺骗行为

smuggle v. 走私，偷运

swap v. 交换

unfair adj. 不公平的

deprive v. 剥夺，使丧失

violation n. 违背,妨害

archery n. 射箭，箭术

equestrian n. 马术，骑术

Full Transcript

It’s nearly time for the Olympic Games to kick off in Rio but many of the athletes from one big nation won’t be there. A lot of the Russian team has been banned after investigators found out they’d been using performance enhancing drugs and that some Russian officials were helping them get away with it.

It’s the event the world’s best athletes spend their lives working towards, the Olympic Games. But while many of these guys are hoping to win gold at Rio, quite a few athletes from one country in particular have now lost their chance to compete.

Russia. It’s famous for being really big, really cold, and for these doll things. It’s also known as one of the big contenders at the Olympic Games. All up, it’s won more medals than any other country besides the USA.
But Russia’s going to have to compete at Rio without lots of their top athletes. The World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA is the group in charge of testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs. It found many Russian athletes had been cheating.

Last year, WADA released a report saying lots of Russian athletes had failed drug tests. Russia said it’d clean things up, but when WADA went back for another check, it found things hadn’t changed enough. In fact, the latest WADA report found cheating in Russia was more widespread than thought, and involved government officials. It even found Russian secret service agents were helping athletes to cheat drug tests by smuggling out urine samples from labs and swapping them with clean ones that’d been frozen and stored. Gross.

WADA asked for the whole Russian team to be banned from this year’s games, but the Olympic Committee decided to leave the decision up to the different sports. The International Athletics Federation has already announced that no track and field athletes from Russia will be allowed to compete. Other sports, like swimming, rowing, and modern pentathlon have gone for partial bans. But some Russian athletes say that’s really unfair because they haven’t done anything wrong, and they’re being banned for the actions of a few.

SVETLANA ULOGA, RUSSIAN RUNNER: I think it’s unfair to punish the whole country, all clean athletes. We have nothing to do with it and we are deprived of the opportunity.

But many others disagree, including Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt.

USAIN BOLT, SPRINTER: Rules are rules and doping violations in track and field are getting really bad. So if you feel like you need to make a statement, then thumbs up.

WADA says Olympics organisers needed to send a stronger message that cheating isn’t OK. But while many athletes have been banned, other sporting organisations, including the ones in charge of archery, table tennis, and equestrian have given the OK for athletes to compete in those areas. So what do you think should happen?

KID 1: I think it’s good that they’re banning people who are doing the wrong thing and punishing them by not letting them compete.

KID 2: There are some of the Russian athletes are honestly working hard to get in the Olympics so if they ban all the athletes it’s really unfair for them.

KID 3: I do think they should be banned because it’s not fair them having a physical advantage over the competitor

KID 4: I think it’s a good opportunity for Australia because now they can compete more and there’s one less person to go against so now we’ve got a bit better of a chance at getting a better place.

(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4509192.htm)