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Rick Hoyt is American and he has a good job at the University of Boston. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, he is in a wheelchair because of a serious illness. He can't {#blank#}2{#/blank#} either and he uses a computer for daily communication. However, he loves sport and wants to challenge {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in triathlon-a sports competition in which people swim 4 kilometers, bike 180 kilometers and run 42 kilometers. How can Rick make it as he can't swim, bike or run and sits in a wheelchair? It {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to be an impossible dream for him to realize.

Rick can take part because he does it with his father, Dick Hoyt. Together, they try their best to do the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} task in their life-in the running, his father pushes him in his wheelchair; in the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, Rick lies in a small boat and his father swims and pulls him; in the cycling Rick sits in a special seat on the front of his {#blank#}7{#/blank#} bike.

Of course, the Hoyts never win the race. The winner of a triathlon usually completes it in about nine {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, but the Hoyts take much longer time. "That's right, "says the father. "We never win. But Rick and I think that we always win. "

Now the father and son have {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the respect (尊敬) of many people. And their {#blank#}10{#/blank#} courage also sets a god example for us all. It sends out the message how important it is that we believe in ourselves and never give up.

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