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Apolo Anton Ohno

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Apolo Anton Ohno
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Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 7 to 9
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   6.74

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    Chunkie, best, interference, encouraging, heartache, helping, finding, committee, solitude, successful, influence, death, remote, daily, security, success
     content words:    Apolo Anton Ohno, Washington State, Yuki Ohno, Lake Placid, New York, Kim Dong-Sung, South Korea, Angry South Koreans

Apolo Anton Ohno
By Ekaterina Zhdanova-Redman 		  
1     Do you ever get the chance to just sit and think? Do you like to have time to think through important decisions? Lots of people have habits for thinking, including going to certain places that they find help them think. Do you have a place like that?
 
2     The story of Apolo Anton Ohno could begin at his birth in 1982 or at his first big win in speed skating at the age of 14. But more important than both of those events was some "thinking time" Ohno did in the woods of Washington and a decision he made on the side of the road during a rainstorm. It was there that Ohno decided that he would stick with skating, when just days earlier he had been ready to quit.
 
3     Ohno was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised by his single father, Yuki Ohno. Yuki had quite a lot of influence in Apolo's career as a speed skater. Yuki was always behind his son, encouraging him to work as a speed skater, taking him to races, and helping Apolo make decisions about his career.

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