Women and Sports
The Olympics are also primarily about traditional male values.Women's sports，like theYugoslav girls'game of rope jumping，is one example.Women，also，aswe know from studies on competition，would prefer a negotiated score in which all parties are happy.For example，if the game is drawn，many women are satisfied with that conclusion whilemen would prefer a“sudden death4”（with all themetaphoricalmeanings behind it）.
Olympic sports，from a feminist perspective，have either developed from a warrior tradition such as fencing or from leisure time，that is，when women were taking care of the home economy.Indeed，the origin of the Olympics lies in preparing men for war.As with the non-West，the inclusion of women has been in the terms and values ofmale Western games.Women's terms and values have been excluded largely in the same sense non-Western culture has.
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1 GNP
Gross national product（GNP）is an estimate of total value of all the final products and services turned out in a given period by themeans of production owned by a country's residents.
2 kabaddi
Kabaddi，also spelled kabbadior kabadi，game played between two teams on opposite halves of a field or court.Individual players take turns crossing onto the other team's side，repeating“kabaddi，kabaddi”（or an alternate chant）；points are scored by tagging asmany opponents as possible without being caught or taking a breath before returning to one's home territory.Indigenous to South Asia，kabaddi is also known as hu-tu-tu in western India，ha-do-do in eastern India and Bangladesh，chedu-gudu in southern India，gudu in Sri Lanka，and theechub in Thailand.
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3 Maghreb
Maghreb，（Arabic：“West”）also spelled Maghrib，region of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea.The Africa Minor of the ancients，at one time included Moorish Spain and now comprises essentially the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plain of Morocco，Algeria，Tunisia，and Libya.
4 sudden death
In a sport or game，sudden death is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others，with that competitor becoming the winner.Sudden death is typically used as a tiebreaker when a contest is tied at the end of regulation playing time or the completion of the normal playing task.
Practice for the unit
A.Blank filling
1.____________is the“rule book”of the__________________________________（IOC）.
2.____________is named the Father of Modern Olympic.
3.______________________________are two of the fundamentals of the new human society.
4.Coubertin personally does not approve of____________________________.
5.Coubertin thinks that_____________________________can be realized through participation in the Games.
6.Experts say thatOlympic is an avenue for the West to______________________________.
7.Participation in the Games is participation in another form of_________________________________________________.
8._____________________is more important than cultural exchange and refinement of the human spirit.
9.______________________have become the two key Olympics words.
10.The origin of the Olympics lies in__________________.
B.Short-answer questions
1.Please understand and translate the paragraphs below.
Olympism is a philosophy of life，exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body，will and mind.Blending sportwith culture and education，Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort，the educational value ofgood example，and respectforuniversal fundamental ethical principles.
The goal of Olympism is to place everywhere sport at the service of the harmonious development of man，with a view to encouraging the establishment ofa peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.
2.How does Coubertin describe the characteristic of Olympic“religion”？
3.According to the example of Dream Team in Text B，what does the author want to conclude？
C.Critical thinking
By listing the element of“beauty”，what philosophy does Pierre de Coubertinmean to describe？