CNN News:铁人三项运动

And triathlons are tough. They start when you jump in the water. They don`t stop until you cross the finish line on foot. The athletes who compete in these things push through pain and exhaustion in a race against the clock.

三项全能运动是残酷的。这项运动以游泳开始，整个比赛过程直到双脚到达终点线才可以停止。在与时钟做抗争的过程中，运动员付出了难以想象的痛苦和精力。

Scout Bassett competes at the world championship level, and as Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us, she has plenty of experience persevering through challenges.

Scout Bassett参加了世界性铁人三项比赛，Sanjay Gupta博士说，她之所以能走到今天这一步是因为她具有丰富的经验支撑着她迎接挑战。

On a hot Los Angeles day, you`ll find Scout Bassett outside on the roof of her apartment, logging miles on her bike.

在拉斯维加斯炎热的一天，你会看到Scout Bassett在她房顶上坚持训练。

She`s a dedicated multisport athlete, but take a closer look. Scout has run marathons and raced triathlons, all with one leg

她是综合运动运动员候选人，但是离近来看，Scout仅仅是凭借着一条腿来跑马拉松，竞争铁人三项的。

This has been very good to me. It`s done a lot of long miles.

这对我非常有帮助。让我可以走的更远。

Scout lost her leg when she was just a baby. It was the beginning of a difficult childhood.

Scout在她小的时候就是去了另一条腿。那也只是噩梦般童年的开始。

I was burned in a fire in China And when I turned one year old,

我在一岁多的时候在中国遇到火灾被烧伤。

I was placed on the streets in front of the government orphanage.

我被安置在政府孤儿院前的街道上。

When I came here to the U.S., I was seven years old and weighed 22 pounds.

我来美国的时候是7岁，只有22磅重。

Scout had never left her orphanage before being adopted. Overnight, she found herself with a new family, in a new country, surrounded by strangers, and unable to speak any English.

Scout直到她被收养一直没有离开过孤儿院。突然间她发现她有了一个新的家庭，在一个全新的地方，周围都是陌生人，她还可以说英语了。

Everybody`s just looking at you, wanting to know what`s going on, who you are, where you come from. And I mean, I was like, I`m not even sure what`s happening to me. How am I supposed to explain that to you?

每个人都好奇的打量着你，想知道你是谁，从哪来，发生了什么。我觉得很好笑，因为我自己都不知道到底在我身上发生了些什么，更别说跟他们去解释了。

Exercise became a refuge. She saw other par athletes race a triathlon with the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

训练对她来说是一种寄托。她看到其他像她一样的运动员在运动员挑战基地参加铁人三项运动的比赛。

Being able to see that was something that changed my life forever, seeing what was possible out there.

我看到了可以改变我一生的希望，看到了可能。

She started to race triathlons herself, swimming without any artificial leg because it would weigh her down. Switching into a leg with a foot, made into a bike cleat, and then switching again to an artificial running leg for the end of the race.

她开始自己训练三项全能运动，甚至在没有义肢的帮助下游泳，因为那会增加重量，使她下沉。由腿转换成脚，再到自行车，再转换成腿跑完最后的比赛。

Race by race, training day by training day, I started to gain this confidence that I really had lacked for much of my life, and became just this person who really believed in myself for the first time.

一场接一场的比赛，周而复始的训练让我重新获得了失去已久的自信，第一次可以肯定自己的价值。

And she has no plans of slowing down.

对此她表示会继续坚持下去。