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Exercise 1： Last week’s announcement was premature by most people’s measurement—Jordan is 30 and at the height of his playing and earning power—but it was not, by his own account, taken hastily, or rashly. “This is, ” he said, with a rare stumble, “the perfect timing for me to walk away.” After three championships with the Chicago Bulls, a second gold medal with the US team at the 1992 Olympics, Jordan felt his motivation slipping away. “I’m at the pinnacle,” he told a thronged press conference. “I just feel I don’t have anything else to prove.” But this explanation may appear too simple to s