读报：Sports

I read two articles about  SPORTS on Bucks County Herald December 19, 2024.  (A young student and a middle-aged woman. ）Barbara gave me the newspaper.
A) Levittown swimmer Kennedi Dobson strikes gold at Toyota US Open national championships 
Written by Karen Sangillo
Kennedi Dobson gave the year 2024 quite a sendoff。
The Levittown native took home a whopping four gold medals from the recent USA Swimming Toyota US Open short course national.
Her efforts earned her the meet’s High Point award.
“I definitely wasn’t expecting to do that well.” said Dobson, a senior at Neshaminy. “The best part of the meet for me is seeing some people I know and knowing I’m going to race them in events we both don’t normally swim. I had a lot of fun.”
“I feel like with everything that happened it was a lot all at once. I’m still just a 17-years-old from Levittown who swims for fun.” 
“ I’m really looking forward to 2025,” she said. “ Definitely, I want to concentrate on stuff with college; just having a good freshman season with that team.”
B) On the Run 
Forty years later, former Bristol High School great Karen Delaney Wheeler still running her best.
written by Wayne Fish

It’s an early sub-freezing Sunday morning and Karen Delaney Wheeler is lining up with about 400 other runners for the start of a weekly race.
Few among the participants would know that about 40 years ago, this petite speedster toed the starting line with the fastest girls high school cross country competitors. And beat them all.
The most amazing part of this story is the fact that she has been a mother of three children, continues her career in medical radiology and still can crank out a nasty time over the perilous hills of Tyler.
She can still take care of 5K in about 26 minutes.
Delaney Wheelers had a chance to go to the University of Pennsylvania but St. Joe’s offered a better financial package and that’s where she went. One of the assistant coaches there was former Pennsbury High School running star Jim Van Blunk.
As for her family, to no one’s surprise, all three children took up running and have excelled at it.
Any advice for an adult runner either getting back into it or just starting out for the first time?
“Don’t be discouraged,”she said. “Stick with it. There are going to be days when you don't think you can go very far. We all have to make some kind of a comeback. It takes time. You can't rush it.”

C) I also used to run and swim a lot when I was a student. We swam in Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing. I'm old now, but I still do exercises every day.