高中英语 Module 5 The Great Sports Personality Yang’s record sparks China, Macau’s big gamble paying dividends训练 外研版必修5.docVIP

PAGE  2014年秋高中英语 Module 5 The Great Sports Personality Yang’s record sparks China, Macau’s big gamble paying dividends训练 外研版必修5 MACAU: Yang Lian’s world record in the women’s weightlifting sparked China’s resurgence Sunday after tiny host Macau won the first three gold medals in a surprising start to the 4th East Asian Games. Huang Yanhui took the women’s wushu nanquan title and Macau’s paddlers triumphed in men’s and women’s dragonboat finals before Yang captured China’s first gold with a record in the 48-kilogram (106-pound) class. She boosted 117 kilograms (258 pounds) with her last lift in the clean-and-jerk, improving the world mark by one kilogram. Yang, 23, also lifted 90 kilograms (198 pounds) in the snatch for a combined total of 207 kilograms (456 pounds), equaling the Asian record. “I’m very happy to break the record, now I want the Olympic,” gold medal, said Yang, setting her sights on the Beijing 2008 Games. “I just wanted to get the gold medal today, so I didn’t add any (extra) weight.” Lu Jinbi won the men’s 56 kg weightlifting title, giving China a perfect start at the Macau Stadium Pavilion. Through 19 of Sunday’s 27 finals, China had 14 gold medals, including five in dragonboats and the first six awarded in the sanshou discipline of wushu. Macau had five gold medals: two in Wushu and three in dragon boats. The diving program opened with Luo Yutong (513.36 points) retaking the lead on his fifth dive in the 3-meter springboard and leading Pan Zhaowei (511.20) in a Chinese 1-2 finish. Japan’s Ken Terauchi (478.08) took bronze. Dual Olympic gold medalist Guo Jingjing was in action in the women’s 1-meter springboard final later Sunday. China had been expected to dominate the nine-day regional event, but Macau a gambling enclave of about 460,000 people just west of Hong Kong reaped the initial dividends from its investment in staging the Games. Macau organisers spent more than $374 million on Games sports venues, hoping to widen the city’s app