文档介绍：威尔玛·鲁道夫—世界女飞人
:他们都称她为“黑珍珠”或“世界女飞人”。1960年,威尔玛·鲁道夫成为了在一届奥运会中赢得三枚金牌的第一位美国女运动员。她是一位杰出的美国运动员。她还做了大量的工作来帮助年轻运动员取得成功。...
Wilma Rudolph was born in een forty, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was born too early and only weighed two kilograms. She had many illnesses when she was very young, including pneumonia and scarlet fever. She also had polio, which damaged her left leg. When she was six years old, she began to wear metal leg braces because she could not use that leg
Soon, her family's attention and care showed results. By the time she was nine years old, she no longer needed her leg braces. Wilma was very happy, because she could now run and play like other children. When she was eleven years old, her brothers set up a basketball hoop in the backyard. After that, she played basketball every day.
She later said: "My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."
她后来说:“我的医生告诉我,我以后再也不能走路了。但我妈妈说我一定能。我相信妈妈说的。”
Wilma Rudolph went to her first Olympic Games when she was sixteen years old and still in high school. peted in the een fifty-six games in Melbourne, Australia. She was the youngest member of the United States team. She won a bronze medal, or third place, in the sprint relay event
大学期间破两千米世界纪录
Wilma Rudolph trained hard while in college. She did very well at her petitions against teams from other colleges. In een sixty, she set the world record for the fastest time in the two thousand meter event
:同一年在100米和200米赛跑中都取得了冠军。
That same year, Wilma Rudolph went to the Olympics again, this time in Rome, Italy. She won two gold medals -- first place -- in the one hundred meter and the two hundred meter races. She set a new Olympic record of twenty-three point two seconds for the two hundred meter dash.
She said: "The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so