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tralian culture. You ate expected to think about whether sport is a distinctive cultural feature of Australia. Part A: Reading 1. In Australia, there’re many worldfamous athletes, among whom Ian Thorpe , as far as I am concerned, is the best one. Let’s enjoy a video of him. Could you please say something about him? Australian swimmer. He is known to be poised, confident, modest and calm. Swimming from the time he was eight years old, he keeps up practice with about 20 hours a week in the water. He broke a world record at the world shortcourse championships in Hong Kong in 1999. Thorpe had a very difficult four months in early 2020. He had to deal with a broken ankle and was accused by a German swimming coach of being a drug cheat when his drug test was botched in Berlin. In early 2020, there was a swim suit controversy when he featured, in cheeky TV ads for one of his sponsors, one of their black bodylength seal suits, alongside some real seals on the starting blocks of a swimming pool. Thorpe declared that he will wear a fulllength body swim suit in his Olympic swimming races. The bodysuit (which ha