English readings — Sport
300 original readings written by the FitForm team, graded B1 → C2 and sorted by topic. Reading is free and needs no account; exercises, vocabulary review and essay marking need a FitForm login.
The warm-up is not wasted
Almost every student who has been told to warm up has quietly wondered whether it is really necessary. Five…
The referee and the replay
Video review arrived in football with a straightforward promise: fewer wrong decisions. By that measure it…
Learning a sport at fifteen
There is a quiet belief among teenagers that if you have not started a sport by about ten, it is too late.…
The goalkeeper who stood still
A study of several hundred penalty kicks in professional football found something that ought to change how…
The runner who slowed down
Ask a group of students to run a distance as fast as they can and watch the first hundred metres. Most set…
The athlete who rested
Training does not make you stronger. Recovering from training makes you stronger, and training is what…
The substitute who changed the game
A coach made the same substitution in eleven matches and the team scored shortly afterwards in seven of them.…
The record that was a shoe
Between 2017 and 2020, marathon times at the top of the sport improved faster than in any previous three-year…
The team that practised losing
A basketball coach spent twenty minutes a week rehearsing situations in which the team was behind with two…
The injury that was predictable
A club cut its soft-tissue injuries by almost half without changing its medical staff, its physiotherapy or…
The referee who explained
A league trialled a rule requiring referees to announce the reason for every video review over the public…