The Olympics are a celebration of friendly competition and sportsmanship. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that once the competition starts and players are trying their hardest to achieve a gold prize. Yesterday the Canadian cross-country skiing coach reminded us all that the Golden Rule （Do others as you would want them to do for you） is more important than a gold medal， even at the Olympics.
　　Yesterday Russian skier Anton Gafarov suffered not one but three terrible falls in the men’s cross-country spring and broke his left ski. His ski was so destroyed that it hardly even looked like a ski and it looked like Gafarov wouldn’t even finish the race.
　　None of the Russian coaches or his teammates rushed out to help Gafarov， so Justin Wadsworth took it upon himself to give the struggling skier a new ski even though he wasn’t on his team.
　　“It was like watching an animal stuck in a trap. You can’t just sit there and do nothing about it，” Wadsworth said about Gafarov struggling to complete the last hundred metres of the course.
　　“I was surprised no one else on the course gave him anything. I went over and gave him one of Alex’s spare skis. It was about giving Gafarov some dignity so he didn’t have to walk to the finish area，” Wadsworth said.
　　Gafarov ended up finishing three minutes behind the rest of his competition， and was very sad about how the race went. He hasn’t said something about Wadsworth’s act of kindness yet， but we’re believing that it meant a lot to him！
　　Vocabulary
　　skier n. 滑雪運动员
　　struggling adj. 挣扎的，奋斗的
　　dignity n. 自尊
　　（Would you do the same thing for someone else on another team？）
　　赵旭锋整理