今日VOA 4/27/2012

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.

The London Olympics are less than one hundred days away. Across the world, many competitors still have to qualify for the sixteen days of competition. Others are entering the final weeks of training.

Three hundred thousand people are expected to travel to the British capital for the Summer Olympic Games. The opening ceremonies are on July twenty-seventh.

Wednesday marked the one-hundred-day point. Sebastian Coe -- the British runner who won two Olympic gold medals -- is chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.

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British, Olympics(发 “俄“）won 听着象win, expected (should be iks, not eks), still ((L音可以再明显一些,尾音的部分,用舌尖顶一下上牙的牙跟处, 只要作出这个动作, L的音就形成了)  less(发e时候,加个微笑表情), THE(再多咬一点舌头) , on and sebastian (i not e). competitor, too

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