huolympics1-10, Exercise 1: The pattern of strengths

Model answer:

Hungary's Olympic success is concentrated in water sports (swimming, water polo, canoeing) and combat and skill sports (fencing, boxing, wrestling, modern pentathlon), carried by a succession of individual champions. It is thin in large team ball sports and was thin in winter sports until recently. One explanation is accumulated tradition: early champions, clubs and coaching lines, and places to practise such as the Danube, the lakes and the pools, together with the fact that these sports offer many medals at each Games. This is a suggestion, and the figures should be checked.