tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 88 - Australia's Sporting Success

Luyện tập với IELTS Academic Reading Sample 88 - Australia's Sporting Success giúp các bạn hệ thống kiến thức đã học, làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi, đồng thời rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề giúp bạn tự tin đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo. | AUSTRALIA S SPORTING SUCCESS A They play hard they play often and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine. At the Australian Institute of Sport AIS hundreds of youngsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches. Another body the Australian Sports Commission ASC finances programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sports for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both provide intensive coaching training facilities and nutritional advice. B Inside the academies science takes centre stage. The AIS employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centres. AIS scientists work across a number of sports applying skills learned in one - such as building muscle strength in golfers - to others such as swimming and squash. They are backed up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes. They all focus on one aim winning. We can t waste our time looking at ethereal scientific questions that don t help the coach work with an athlete and improve performance. says Peter Fricker chief of science at AIS. C A lot of their work comes down to measurement - everything from the exact angle of a swimmers dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist. This data is used to wring improvements out of athletes. The focus is on individuals tweaking performances to squeeze an extra hundredth of a second here an extra millimetre there. No gain is too slight to bother with. It s the tiny gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results. To demonstrate how the system works Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for studying swimmers. A wire-frame model of a champion swimmer slices through the water her arms moving in slow motion. Looking .