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In 1924, Nordic ski events were held at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. But the American skiers came home without
In 1924, Nordic ski events were held at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. But the American skiers came home without
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In 1924, Nordic ski events were held at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. But the American skiers came home without medals. Norway took most of the medals for cross-country and ski jumping events that year. They did the same for many years after. From 1924 through 1972, the American skiers had no medals to show for their Olympic trips. The U.S. was generally thought to be weak in ski competition.
But in 1974 it was discovered that the U. S. record was slightly better than people had been led to believe. And Norway’s record was not quite as good. The discovery was a surprise and a delight to American ski fans, but even more so to American skier Anders Haugen. After fifty years, Anders got the medal he should have won back in 1924.
In the ski jump event at Chamonix in 1924, Haugen had scored in fourth place. He had just missed earning a medal. His score was 17.916, just slightly behind Thorleif Haug of Norway. Haug’s score of 18 had won him the bronze medal.
But in 1974, Norway’s National Olympic Committee did a check of all final Olympic results. There had been an error in computing Haug’s score! So Haugen, now, an elderly man, traveled across the ocean for his award. On September 12,1974, he was given a bronze medal in a special ceremony at the Norway Ski Museum.
The writer says "the discovery was a surprise and a delight to American ski fans" in order to ______.
选项
A、show that the error and its correction were important to ski fans as well as to Haugen
B、show that the error was more important to fans than to Haugen
C、suggest that the Americans eared more about the error than the Norwegians
D、suggest that there had been no error
答案
A
解析
第二段。第一段已经提到人们认为美国的滑雪不如挪威的好。因此当发现挪威的滑雪记录并不是像人们被告知的那么好时,美国人和美国的滑雪迷们跟美国运动员Anders Haugen一样非常激动。这对美国运动员和美国人都很重要。选项A是正确的。
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