1. Preparation is Perspiration

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Listen to a profile of Mikaela Shiffrin, the best Slalom skier in the world.

Now answer these questions.

Pregunta 1

Most  experts are not impressed by Shiffrin's style of skiing.

Pregunta 2

People tend not to support the most talented competitors and this is the case with Shiffrin too.

Pregunta 3

The Olympics are just a small part of a five-month ski season.

Pregunta 4

Shiffrin is an insecure skier.

Pregunta 5

Although she lives in Colorado, her sporting home is in the East Coast.

Pregunta 6

At Killington, in Vermont her results were excellent.

Pregunta 7

A psychologist helped Shiffrin.

Pregunta 8

At just sixteen, she became the youngest skier ever to win a U.S. national championship.

Pregunta 9

When he first saw Shiffrin skiing, the author was impressed by her revolutionary technique.

Pregunta 10

Skiing techniques are complex and difficult to analyse.

Pregunta 11

Shiffrin is not a genius, but a hard worker.

Here you have the audioscript.

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Match the following expressions from the text with their definitions. Write the number.

it’s a fair bet

01. destroy utterly, wipe out

root for

02. ancestors

underdog

03. territory

stone-cold 04. it's almost sure
home turf 05. support
forebears 06. person that is well known by the public
obliterate 07. perfect
household name 08. completely
flawless

09. a competitor thought to have little chance of winning

on an equal footing

10. from the very beginning

full of it

11. be in a heightened emotional state, such as that of fear, anger, or excitement

from the get-go

12. with the same conditions

freak out

13. talking nonsense

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Learn some vocabulary related to skiing here.