When my kids were in athletics, they paid the price to get their bodies coordinated with their minds.

当我的小孩学体育的时候，他们会付出努力让身体和思维结合起来。

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At the same time, running and becoming successful in America also inspires the young American kids to take up athletics and be as good as Bernard Lagat.

与此同时，跑步、成功也会激励美国孩子，让他们参与体育，跟拉加特一样棒。

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Given the prevailing educational undercurrent, it's no surprise that many kids' second brush with organized athletics takes place in a school.

既然体育运动具有普遍而潜在的教育作用，很多孩子第二次接触有组织的体育活动发生在学校也就不足为怪了。

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At Linwood Park, where Patty sometimes organized athletics for the kids, Connie sat by herself on the grass, unbored, her hands fashioning a clover-flower ring for nobody, and let the minutes stream past her until Joey took his turn at bat or moved the soccer ball down the field and quickened her interest momentarily.

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The athletic director generally expresses the message that athletics as a privilege for kids who have their heads together.

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Other kids played in Central Park, participated in athletics, basked and what have you in the great outdoors.

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