Chúng ta cùng đến với bài học ngày hôm nay nhé! Các bạn hãy nghe và điền từ vào chỗ trống nha: Women in Sport The struggle to attain equality for female …1… in sport has been a long and hard- fought one. One hundred years ago, a …2… of people-many women included-would have thought it unnatural, if not immoral, to permit women to participate in sports. Today, womens participation is …3… and accepted by most. However, there are still many sports and sport-related …4… and organizations that have not achieved full equality. Some sports, such as football or boxing, …5… very little female participation, although even these so-called masculine sports are changing. Womens boxing, for example, will …6… be included in the Olympic Games by the end of this decade. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, when sports and …7… education programs were first organized in North America, women were …8… from participating for so-called scientific or medical reasons. Physicians as a group often spoke out against female athleticism, using the …9… that physical activity would damage reproduction. Others claimed that it was …10… simply unnatural for women to participate in sports. Little real …11… was provided to support these claims. In truth, the so-called evidence was more a reflection of physicians …12… assumptions about womens place in society in general. The 1920s and 1930s …13… a short Golden Age in womens sports. Individual …14… and teams or leagues formed to support female athletics. Track and field, tennis, softball, programs in physical education, and other …15… were encouraged, at least for those women lucky enough to have the time and money to participate. There was even a Womens Olympic Games …16… in the 1920s and 1930s. At one point, the regular Olympic Games …17… by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), became concerned that the Womens Olympics would gain enough power to challenge the superiority of the IOCs Olympics. As a result, the IOC included a …18… more womens events in their Games, although not many. The Golden Age of womens sports was …19… by a long drought. The post-World War II era was one of very conservative t…20… family values in North America. However, in the 1970s the current boom in womens sport …21... One of the driving …22… in the movement was East Bloc countries, particularly the Soviet Union and East Germany, both of which …23… female athletes at the highest level-the Olympic Games. Female athletes with strong and muscular bodies emerged on the …24… sports stage. At first, this raised concern among the male-dominated sports …25... However, after years of struggle, the muscular and strong female …26… body has become common in international sport. In the late-nineteenth century, the ….27… of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, said that the sight of women participating in sport was an affront to the human eye, and unnatural. Weve come a long …28… since then. https://youtube/watch?v=uF5qChMyh_M
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