The Legend of Cliff Young
Every year, Australia hosts an 875-kilometer endurance racing from Sydney to Melbourne - considered to be the world’s longest and toughest ultra-marathon. It’s a long, tough race that takes five days and normally participated by world-class athletes who train specially for the event. Backed by big names in sports like Nike, these athletes are mostly less than 30 years old men and women equipped with the most expensive sponsored training outfits and shoes.
In 1983, these top class runners were in for a surprise. On the day of the race, a guy named Cliff Young showed up. At first, no one cared about him since everybody thought he was there to watch the event. After all, he was 61 years old, showed up in overalls and galoshes over his work boots…
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LEARN ENGLISH
1. What was important in the race?
a. the ability to run very fast b. the ability to keep running
2. The athletes paid for their suits and shoes themselves.
a. true b. false
3. In this text “back” is:
a. a verb b. a noun
4. Give two reasons why at first everybody thought he had c0me to watch
the race.KEY: 1.b 2.b 3.a 4. He was too old and he did not have suitable shoes.
