Date of Birth: 8th September, 1971 Country: USA
Lance Armstrong's Guinness record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France was set in 1999 with an average speed of 40.27 km/hr. In his teens he was a triathlete but at 16 he began to concentrate on cycling. He was an amateur cyclist before the 1992 Olympic Games but turned professional after he had competed in the Games. In the following few years, he won numerous titles, and by 1996 he had become the world's number one. However, in October 1996, he discovered he had cancer and had to leave cycling. Successfully fighting his illness, Armstrong officially returned to racing in 1998. In 1999 he won the Tour de France and in 2003 he achieved his goal of winning five Tours de France.
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兰斯·阿姆斯特郎
出生日期：1971年9月8日 国籍：美国
兰斯·阿姆斯特郎的环法自行车赛最快平均速度的吉尼斯记录是他 1999 年以 40.27 公里 小时的平均速度创造的。在少年时期，他是一名三项全能比赛的运动员，但到 16 岁时，他开始集中精力于自行车运动。在 1992 年奥运会之前他还只是一名业余车手，但是在参加奥运会比赛之后，他就成为一名专业车手了。在随后的几年里，他获得了许多称号。到了 1996 年，他已经成为世界第一了。然而，在1996年10月，他发现自己患了癌症，不得不放弃骑车运动。在成功地
战胜病魔之后，他于1998年正式重返赛场。1999年他赢得了环法自行车赛的冠军。到2003年，他完成了自己在环法自行车赛上五次夺冠的目标。 Michellie Jones
Date of Birth: 9th June, 1969 Country: Australia
In 1988 Michellie Jones helped establish the multi-sport event, the triathlon, in Australia. After completing her teaching qualifications in 1990, she concentrated on the triathlon. In 1991, she finished third at the world championships. In 1992 and 1993, she was the International Triathlon Union World Champion. Since then, she has never finished lower than fourth in any of the world championships she has competed in. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000 she won the silver medal in the Women's Triathlon, the first time the event had been included in the Olympic Games. Recently, for the first time in 15 years, Jones was not selected as part of the national team and therefore did not compete in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. 米歇尔· 琼斯
出生日期：1969年6月9日 国籍：澳大利亚
1988年，米歇尔· 琼斯在澳大利亚帮助创建了“多项运动”比赛——三项全能运动。1990年她取得教师资格证以后，就把精力集中在三项全能运动上。在1991年的世界锦标赛上她得了第三名。在1992年和
1993年，她取得了国际铁人三项联盟的冠军。从那以后，在她所参加的任何一次世界锦标赛中，她从来没有低于第四名的成绩。在 2000 年的悉尼奥运会上，她又取得了女子三项全能运动的银牌。该项运动还是首次被纳入奥运会。最近，琼斯没有入选国家队，这是她15年来首次未被入选，因而她没能参加2004年的雅典奥运会。 Fu Mingxia
Date of Birth: 16th August, 1978 Country: China
Fu Mingxia first stood on top of the 10-metre diving platform at the age of nine. At 12 years old she won a Guinness Record when she became the youngest female to win the women's world title for platform diving at the World Championships in Australia in 1991. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, she took the gold medal in the women's 10-metre platform, becoming the youngest Olympic diving champion of all time. This was followed by great success at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where she won gold for both the 10-metre platform and the three-metre springboard. This made her the first woman in Olympic diving history to win three gold medals. She retired from diving after Atlanta and went to study economics at university. While there she decided to make a comeback and went on to compete at the Sydney Olympic Games, where she won her fourth Olympic gold, again making Olympic history. 伏明霞
出生日期：1978年8月16日
国籍：中国
伏明霞首次站在10米跳台上是在她9岁的时候。1991 年，12 岁的伏明霞就获得了一项吉尼斯记录，当时她参加了在澳大利亚举行的跳台跳水世界锦标赛，成为最年轻的女子世界冠军。在 1992 年的巴塞罗那奥运会上，她夺得女子 10 米跳台的金牌，成为有史以来最年轻的奥运会跳水冠军。随后的巨大成功是在 1996年的亚特兰大奥运会上， 她又夺得 10 米跳台和 3 米跳板的金牌。 这使伏明霞成为奥运会跳水史上第一位连续夺得三枚金牌的女子。在亚特兰大之后，伏明霞退股，到大学里学习经济。读书期间，她决定复出参加悉尼奥运会，结果她又获得第四枚奥运会金牌，再次改写了奥运会历史。 Martin Strel
Date of Birth: 1st October, 1954 Country: Slovenia
Strel was trained as a guitarist before he became a professional marathon swimmer in 1978. He has a passion for swimming the world's great rivers. In 2000, he was the first person ever to swim the entire length of the Danube River in Europe - a distance of 3,004 kilometres in 58 days. For this, he attained his first entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Then in 2001 he broke the Guinness record for non-stop swimming - 504.5 kilometres in the Danube River in 84 hours and 10 minutes. Martin won his third entry in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2002 when he beat his own record for long distance swimming by swimming the length of the Mississippi River in North America in 68 days, a total of 3,797 kilometres.
Then in 2003 he became the first man to have swum the whole 1,929 kilometres of the difficult Parana River in South America.In 2004, Strel again broke his own Guinness record by swimming the length of the dangerous Changjiang River (4,600 km), the third longest fiver in the world. 马丁·斯特雷
出生日期：1954年10月1日 国籍：斯洛文尼亚
在1978年成为职业马拉松游泳运动员之前，斯特雷曾被作为吉他手培养。但是他有一股热情， 想要到世界上的大江大河中去游泳。2000 年， 他成为游完欧洲多瑙河全程的第一人—58 天游完了 3004 公里。 为此，他第一次进入了《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》。随后在2001年，他打破了全程无间断游泳的吉尼斯世界纪录——在多瑙河中以84小时10分的时间游了504.5公里。马丁于2002年第三次进入《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》，这次他打破了自己创下的远距离游泳的世界纪录——在68天内总共游完北美洲密西西比河的3797公里。然后在2003年他成为游完难度巨大，全程1929公里的南美洲巴拉那河的第一人。到 2004 年，斯特雷再次破了他自己的吉尼斯记录,游了世界上第三大河长江的危险河段 4600 公里。
选修9 Unit 2 Sailing the oceans-Reading
SRILING THE OCERNS
We may well wonder how seamen explored the oceans before latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship's position on a map.