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The document describes a student who is on their school's athletics team despite being unathletic. While the rest of the team is fit and athletic, the student struggles to keep up during training and is often left behind. However, the student refuses to give up and continues training despite their weaknesses. They find encouragement in knowing that every team has its fastest and slowest members. The student has grown accustomed to being the "ugly duckling" of the team but appreciates the attention and help they receive from others. An upcoming interhouse athletics competition causes concern given the student's lack of athletic ability when compared to their semi-professional peers.

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The document describes a student who is on their school's athletics team despite being unathletic. While the rest of the team is fit and athletic, the student struggles to keep up during training and is often left behind. However, the student refuses to give up and continues training despite their weaknesses. They find encouragement in knowing that every team has its fastest and slowest members. The student has grown accustomed to being the "ugly duckling" of the team but appreciates the attention and help they receive from others. An upcoming interhouse athletics competition causes concern given the student's lack of athletic ability when compared to their semi-professional peers.

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Being the Opposite of Athletic in the Athletics Team Amidst the scorching heat of the summer sun, I was

trampling up the hill with my greatest might, while the rest of the athletics team were nowhere in sight. Great I thought, I was left behind for the fifteenth time since the first day I stepped onto the training ground. It was pretty obvious and understandable, as I was the e act opposite of !athletic" while the rest of the team were robust or at least fit enough to ma#e sense out of people when they said they are one of them. $till, I #ept going step by step up the hill with sweat pouring down my chubby nec# , but without any thoughts of giving in. %atching from the sidelines of our training ground, some might giggle, laugh or even tell me that I was not meant to be in this team of outstanding athletes. There was no doubt that I was the slowest in the team, but giving in was never what I had in mind. I #ept on telling myself that every team and race always has its fastest and its slowest, there is nothing we should be proud or ashamed of. I remember witnessing &ai 'hun (o, the only (ong )ong runner who graduated from my school

I was so used to being the ugly duc#ling that I began to li#e being one. Although it indeed was a bit embarrassing to be assisted while getting up the chin up bar, but at least I receive a significant amount of attention and help. After every second I endured through the fitness e ercises, I heard sounds of ama*ement, encouragement or even approval.

+All seventh graders are re,uired to ta#e part in the interhouse athletics heats.+ The moment these words reached my ears, it was li#e being informed that a storm is coming my way. Imagine an overweight #id against a group of semi-professional athletes in a one hundred meter sprint, that would be an utterly pathetic picture.

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