Even the games themselves have become a huge business. Countries fight to hold the Olympics not only for honor, but for money. The 1972 games in Munich cost the Germans 545 million dollars, but by selling medal symbols, TV rights, food, drink, hotel rooms, and souvenirs (纪念品), they managed to make a profit. Appropriately, the symbol of victory in the Olympic games is no longer a simple olive wreath—it is a gold medal.
S1. To many people, sports today is nothing but S1 .
S2. What do most athletes of today go after? S2 .
S3. What reward could an ancient Greek athlete expect? S3 .
S4. By the fourth century A.D., Olympic contests became increasingly more S4 , thus ruining the Olympics.
S5. When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, athletes who had received special training in camps would be S5 .
S6. What did Spiridon Loues do after he accepted the Athenian’s gift? S6 .
S7. According to the author, some athletes are even willing to advertise for businesses which sell things like S7 .
S8. The 1972 Munich games managed to make a big profit mainly by S8 (1) services and selling S8 (2) .
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Exercise 2
1. a fast route to wealth
2. Money.
3. A wreath of olive leaves.
4. professional
5. barred
6. He gave up running forever.
7. ski equipment and fast food
8. providing…goods
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