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How to get achieve gold medals

From 12 November to 27 November, 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou China. For 15 days, all athletes who participated in the game tried their best to perform well. For sportsman, their greatest success might be winning gold medal in international competitions whether they play alone or in team. When talking about team sports, in order to achieve the glorious gold medal, there are several causes that can lead sports teams to the first place. In my opinion, those causes can be the will of each player and cooperation of whole team.

Considering a successful sports career is winning gold medal, the will of each player is very important. This makes sense for other jobs as well but athletes in particular need the mind of strong will to participate and practice. Since sports career involves both physical and mental hardship, athletes should have strong will in order to not lose concentration and focus on practicing. Athletes who lack such mind undergoes difficult time when concentrating on their practice and eventually give up. The world's leading figure skating player Kim Yuna has been suffering from physical hardship and mental pressures ever since she started figure skating. However, with full support of her mother, she never gave up and rather tried hard to focus. She could do it because she had strong will inside her mind. As a result, she became the Queen of figure skating and is truly the world's best figure skater. She achieved many gold medals and performed numerous amazing plays. Kim Yuna is just one example among many. Like her, athletes should strong will in their mind no matter how hard their career is.

When talking about team sports, the most significant key to winning each game is cooperation. If team members fail to cooperate with each other, there is no chance of winning the game. Cooperation is not at all easy as it seems to be. Each member should know and understand each other well in order to communicate during games. Cooperation is not just playing together only during the game, but it is getting close together with each other in normal life. In 2010 Guangzhou Asian Game, Korean baseball team won the first place after all the game with other countries. The most important point here is that each baseball members maintain very close relationship with each other in daily life. They are close, know each other well, thus understand each other well. In that way, they would be able to perform better and smoother during the game and brings about good result. Acting together well will lead the team to victory.

Although there are several other causes that can also affect success of sportsman, the main causes are the will of players and cooperation of the team. With these two conditions, teams would be already half way ahead of other team. This is not just a theory but many sportsman agree with this. There are numerous barriers that hinder athletes from achieving their goal, but with these two things kept in their mind, they will be able to obtain their goal of grabbing the gold medal and eventually succeed in their sports career.