Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is artistic swimming and how does it differ from other sports?
Hello! This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil. And I'm Becca. Have you ever done something physically challenging, Phil? Like running a marathon maybe, or climbing a mountain? I've climbed some mountains, but only very little ones, so it wasn't that challenging. If physical challenges are something you enjoy, maybe you should try artistic swimming, or synchronised swimming as it used to be called.
A combination of dance and gymnastics with a difference. In artistic swimming, athletes dance underwater while holding their breath.
Did you say dance underwater? Yes, swimmers dance upside down in the water, holding their breath. As we'll hear, it's an extremely demanding sport, which requires discipline, stamina and years of training. As usual, we'll be learning some useful new words and phrases, and you can practice these with the quiz and worksheet on our website. That's bbclearningenglish.com.
Great. But first, Phil, I have a question for you. Artistic swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984, but which country has won the most gold medals since then? Is it A. Russia, B. China or C. the USA? I think it's B. China.
Well, we'll reveal the correct answer later in this episode. Silvia Solomoshiova from Slovakia is a European championship medalist. She's also the first artistic swimmer with over a million social media followers after videos of her walking upside down underwater went viral.
Tässä hän kertoo erilaisista veneen taiteilijoista, joita kutsutaan rutiineiksi. Tässä on Deshiane Nevagayem, BBC World Service Programin esittäjä. Jos olisit pitänyt kertoa veneen taiteilijoista joku, joka ei ole koskaan nähnyt sitä, miten kertoisit sen? Voisin sanoa, että se riippuu, jos katsot soloa, duettia tai ryhmätyötä, koska soloissa on yksi henkilö, duettissa on kaksi henkilöä ja ryhmätyössä voi olla 8 tai 10 henkilöä.
Team routines have a lot of lifts, and actually in the routines we are smiling, but we are hiding behind the smile because we are actually maybe dying. We don't have oxygen, but we are smiling and people think that it's easy when it's actually not.
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Chapter 3: What challenges do artistic swimmers face during routines?
Artistinen veneilyruutiini on sopivissa, eli vain yksi henkilö, tai duettina, joka tarkoittaa kaksi henkilöä. On myös ryhmäruutiineja, joissa yksi veneilijä on jätetty ulos veneen. Kaikki nämä ruutiinit ovat yhdessä, koska ne ovat todella vaikeita.
Yes, artistic routines are done upside down, underwater, without oxygen. The swimmer's movements need to be as graceful as a ballet dancer. And above all, it has to look effortless, because judges award points for artistic expression. Sylvia says she hides behind a smile, an idiom meaning to hide pain by presenting a happy outward appearance.
To succeed at the top level of any sport requires a huge amount of dedication. Silvia trains eight hours a day, six days a week, under the guidance of her coach, who's also her mum, and a former artistic swimming champion herself. Here, Silvia discusses the sacrifices she's made to succeed with Tatjani Navanaigam for BBC World Service's The Conversation. How easy was it being trained and coached by your mum?
Silvia ajattelee, että on hyviä ja huonoja asioita, joista on koulutettu äänellä.
It's good because she can practice at home, but on the other hand it feels like she's training all the time. She uses the phrase on the other hand to show this contrasting opinion. What Sylvia really looks forward to is chilling. A slang word meaning relaxing or hanging out.
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Chapter 4: What sacrifices do athletes make to excel in artistic swimming?
For young athletes, balancing sport with school and friends is difficult, and it's hard to get a respite from training. A respite is a temporary break from doing something difficult. Do you know what, Becca? I think I need a respite from all this talk about training. Now, what was the answer to your question?
Yes, Phil. I asked you which country had won the most gold medals for artistic swimming since the beginning of the Olympic sport. And I said I thought it was China. Well, you're very close geographically. It is in fact Russia. OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with solo, something done alone, and duet, something done by two people.
The idiom hide behind a smile means to hide painful feelings by presenting a happy external appearance. The phrase, on the other hand, is used to introduce a contrasting opinion or statement.
Chillin is slang for relaxing. And finally, a respite is a break from doing something difficult. Once again, our six minutes are up. But if you'd like to practice the vocabulary you've learned from this or any of our other episodes, then head over to our website bbclearningenglish.com for quizzes, pronunciation tips and much more. Thanks for joining us and goodbye for now. Bye!
Tuli kuuran kukkia, keväthankia tai kihlajaiskekkereitä. Löydät nyt yli tuhat pysyvästi edullista tuotetta K-ruokakaupoista.
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