Everybody's Talking About... #WinterOlympics

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BBC Learning English


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Hi everyone! I'm Charlene from BBC Learning English.
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Today is day seven of the winter Olympics
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in South Korea and we've already seen some
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spectacular performances in snowboarding,
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ice-skating and lots of other fantastic winter sports.
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With lots more sporting action to come,
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everybody's talking about it,
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and I'm asking three questions to find out the actual
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words people are saying. Question one.
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How are you enjoying the Winter Olympics?
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I'm enjoying them very much indeed - they're very
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interesting, and I really, really, really am enjoying it.
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Yes - I've not seen too much of it, but what I have seen
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has been pretty spectacular.
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I mean I haven't really been keeping up with the Winter
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Olympics this year but I do think it's good
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for in terms of sportsmanship and
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political impacts this year especially.
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What's been the most stand-out moment for you so far?
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I would have to say it was the opening ceremony,
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you know, when you kind of see all the countries
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kind of like marching together ... there's no conflict,
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it's like everyone's just trying to get along together.
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Oh it's the amazing jumps that the skiers make,
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when they've skied very fast up or down
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one of their slopes, then they jump off the top,
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and you think they're going up to heaven actually.
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Do you think the Winter Olympics has an impact
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beyond sport?
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I don't know - maybe it's becoming kind of ...
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it's weakening as an interest
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and the media should push more and more to, to
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you know, to awake the interest in the broader,
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broader audience. That's what I think.
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With what they've done to the Russian athletes
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as well, I think they've made it a bit
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too political and they've taken the sport out of it,
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in my opinion.
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That's a difficult one; I really don't know
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... I just want Britain to win, always!
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So there you go: Everybody's talking about
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Winter Olympics and now you can too!
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There's a recap coming up in just a second -
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before I go don't forget you can find lots more about
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this topic at BBC Learning English dot com,
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you can also find us on Facebook, Twitter,
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Instagram and YouTube - and get talking!
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See you next time!
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