三、综合填空
At the Zhaoqing leg(分站)of the 2025 National Athletics Grand Prix(全国田径大奖赛), Team Guangdong won the men's 4×100m relay(接力赛). Su Bingtian was one of the 1.
runners
(run). You might think it's normal for him to achieve 2.
victories
(victory) in races across Asia. But not anymore. Just two days earlier, he had chosen to pull out of(退出)the individual(个人)100m semi-finals.
The time Su set in the heats(预赛)was 10.49 seconds, well off his personal best. 3.
Shortly
(short) after the race, he said that it might be his last 100m individual race. "I always said I would keep running 4.
until
I couldn't," he said. "Now I really can't."
Su didn't believe he could improve any 5.
further
(far). "Injuries, lack of training, and, above all, my age have all affected my performance(表现)," he said. "6.
Whatever
(what) I do, I'm not going to get any faster. But I have stuck to the end and have no regrets."
Su Bingtian was 7.
the
first Asian to break the 10-second barrier in the men's 100m. He also set the Asian record of 9.83 seconds at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Su 8.
is recognized
(recognize) as a great example of overcoming(克服)difficulties. In 2013, his best time was just 10.06 seconds. 9.
To improve
(improve) upon that, he decided to make a change. He began placing his left foot, instead of the right, on the front of the starting block(起跑器). Su faced many doubts back then, 10.
yet/but
he didn't give up. When he clocked 9.99 seconds two years later, it became clear that he had made a wise decision. Now, he holds the five fastest 100m times by an Asian, and all of them were recorded after his brave change.