Famous Athletes -IA8 by Soledad Vega

Objective 2 (focus on this vocab)

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Successful

Succeed

Success

Obstacles

Rejected

Rejection

Pursue

Pursuit

Impressed

Take up

Turn into

Turn down

Turn around

Turn out

Investment

Invest

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship

Enable

Desensitize

Desensitization

Rank (E.g. He ranked first)

Against the odds

Objective 1

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Make it

Wealthy

Embrace

Failure

Fail

Overcome

Accomplish

Accomplishment

Accomplished

Fulfill

Fulfillment

Fulfilling

Motivation

Motivate

Motivational

Inspire

Inspirational

Determined

Determination

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Example

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Serena Williams is one of the most successful tennis players in history.

She took up tennis from a young age, but her career was full of obstacles, including injuries, health issues, racial discrimination, a difficult pregnancy... For instance, she had to turn down tournaments because of knee, elbow, and shoulder injuries, and faced media criticism about her appearance. As a child, she was often rejected by tennis academies. However, with perseverance, she desensitized herself from the negativity and turned around these difficult situations. She also became an entrepreneur, launching her own fashion line and investing in various businesses. This enabled her to become a role model outside of the tennis court.

Her journey demonstrates that while the path to success is not always smooth, the result can turn out to be incredibly rewarding.

Jonathan Cayco

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Jonathan Cayco's journey to take up a world-class powerlifter was marked by several obstacles and challenges. Early in his athletic career, Cayco struggled to find his path, experimenting with various sports before discovering powerlifting. His initial years in the sport were riddled with self-doubt and uncertainty, as he faced injuries and setbacks that slowed his progress. Despite showing potential, he often failed to meet his own expectations, which turns out as moments of frustration.

One of his biggest challenges was learning to manage his mental health, particularly when balancing the pressures of competition with personal issues. Cayco has openly discussed dealing with anxiety and self-doubt, especially when competing at the highest level. These mental barriers were just as significant as the physical ones, requiring him to build resilience and focus.

Injuries also plagued his training, with periods of recovery forcing him to step back and reassess his approach to lifting. These experiences taught him the importance of patience and long-term vision. Despite these setbacks, Cayco worked hard to refine his technique, especially in the bench press, eventually turning him into one of the top lifters in his weight class ranking.

Through persistence and discipline, he overcame his failures and reached a peak in his career, breaking multiple records and earning worldwide recognition, which is impressive. His story is one of perseverance, showing that success comes with a commitment to growth and to perseverance to pursue your goals , both physically and mentally, because even against all odds you have to reject the feeling of giving up.

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Nairo Quintara who is now a SUCCESSFUL Colombian cyclist. He started practicing this discipline since he was a child and after a lot of practice he TURN OUT to be skilled. Even though today he is famous, he faced many OBSTACLES in the past, he didn’t have a good bicycle to practice, because he was poor. His life TURNED AROUND when he got his first sponsor, which was Movistar. After this, he PURSUED his biggest dream that was to compete in the France tour. Because of the effort he put during the competition he was ABLE to RANK the first position, IMPRESSING the others competitors and the audience. After this famous competition he decided to became an ENTREPRENEUR and he INVESTED in his own business that is a bicycle shop. A business men offered him to buy his shop but he REJECTED the offer because his shop is SUCCESSFUL.

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Sherman Guity

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Sherman Guity is a national athlete , paralympic , speed specialist, he didn't begin as a paralympic athlete, also he didn't start from the top as everyone thinks, he had to evercome a remarkable obstacle in his life.

In 2017 he had a motobike accident in wich he lost part of his leg, it must be cut... after this event, he was doutbing about what will happen with his life and his career, his coach promised his help to help to become a parathleate.

After hard work, he could continue with his dreams and career, reaching success in the Parlympics Game 2024 where he won a gold medal, certainly he knew how to turn his accident out into an story of succes and overcoming.