Unit 10, exercise 19a http://www.sportnews-stories.com Sport Front Page Irish Olympian defends drug exemptions Imagine you are a hockey player and have been told you have cancer. Your doctor says that with treatment you have a good chance of surviving. But the drugs required are on the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) list. If you take them, you will test positive. In such cases, athletes can seek a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE). When marathon runner Paul Pollock broke a bone in his foot that required a steroid injection to help recovery, he received a TUE. In Rio he produced a strong finish over the 26 miles, moving up 64 places over the second half of the race. The TUEs are, he says, useful. But their use has been questioned. “With any system in place it is open to interpretation and open to corruption. But you definitely have to have a system in place,” says Pollock. “There are cases when you do get injured and when you do need to take certain banned substances. You want to declare that. You want to be open and honest and that’s where the TUEs comes into it.” “In the public eye there is a view of all these TUEs [that] athletes are taking advantage of them … [that] there’s doping. I think a lot more work needs to be done to convince the public that the performances they are viewing are genuine. At the minute that is obviously not the case.” Football Cricket Rugby Union Rugby League Tennis Golf Motorsport Boxing Athletics Other Sports Special Events Sports Talk Student A Unit 8, exercise 28a Student B You heard that your friend, Frank, might fail the school year. You spoke to Frank yesterday. He said: ■■ His headmaster isn’t very nice. He gives Frank no time to make up his work. ■■ His teachers ignore Frank in class. ■■ Frank wants to find another school but doesn’t have a lot of confidence because of his bad grades. ■■ Frank’s got an interview at another school but doesn’t want his headmaster to find out. Unit 9, exercise 30a Hotel du nord is located near the Notre Dame, between two famous streets, Saint Michel and Saint Germain. All the rooms facing the street have an incredible view of Saint-Severin, a Gothic church built between the 13th and 15th centuries. Those facing the courtyard have a view of the rooftops of Paris. The entire hotel is elegantly furnished, and the interior has real 17th-century decor. The rooms have all the modern amenities and are designed … Friday / Saturday night + breakfast Department store heaven: Le Bon Marché It is only in Paris that a department store can have hundreds of designer labels desired by thousands of shoppers, yet still feel like a boutique. Le Bon Marché (meaning cheap, though that’s not entirely true) is an old Parisian institution in a modern building. There’s also a cosmetics department, men’s clothing and a gorgeous home section. Just can’t get enough? The Galleries Lafayette and Le Printemps are only a Metro ride away. Shopping! 137 A Activities Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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