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    Don't Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

    When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach said that I had lots of potential, and I became captain of my 1. That was before all the fun was taken out of 2.

At first, everyone on the team got 3 playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the 4 started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have 5 one-on-one training, got angry when she didn't give them more playing time in our 6. The coach was replaced.

    The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: all we did during practice was 7. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the 8. Of course, all teams run drills; they are 9. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble 10. Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises 11 for 18-year-olds.

    I was very thin 12 I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn't eat much, because I was afraid of being too 13 to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual 14.

    Is all this pressure necessary? I 15 up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That's 16, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they 17 from the coach or their parents.

    I continued playing football at school and 18 my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing 19 him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I 20 down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it's a lot easier to do it well.  

    When Christopher Reeve was picked to play the role of a superhero in films in 1977, audiences across the country cheered. Like Superman, he seemed nearly invincible(不可战胜的). He skied, sailed, flew planes, went diving, rode horses, played tennis, and did them all with skill and ease. No one could imagine Christopher Reeve any other way.

    All that changed on May 27, 1995, when Christopher was in a three-day horse riding competition in Virginia. A terrible accident happened to him, which resulted in paralysis(瘫痪) from the neck down and not breathing on his own. Doctors gave him only a 50-50 chance of surviving at all.

    Gathering his courage, he began to fight for his life. A few days later, Christopher accepted an operation that helped restore(恢复)some feeling to his upper body. Still, doctors emphasized(强调) his limitations. He would never walk again. He would never even breathe again without the aid of a respirator(呼吸器). But Christopher proved the doctors wrong. Later, he was able to breathe on his own.

    Soon after that, Christopher felt ready to face the world again. He had a message to spread. He wanted to tell people that no matter what challenges they faced, they shouldn't give up. Wherever he appeared, his speeches met with ovations(欢呼) and many teary faces. Christopher also went back to work: directing films, which proved he had not lost his creative spark.

    Christopher had his share of "down" times, but after the tears, he always said, "And now, forward!"

He died at age of 52 on Oct. 10, 2004, after several years of living and working with his severe (严重的)disability. He still was—and always will be—Superman!

an old man.