By the time she was ten years old Ana could run very fast.Soon she was winning races—often without shoes!She wanted someone from a government sport school to see her.Ana knew that only Cuba's best students were chosen.So she praccticed hard every day.At last she heard the news that she was waiting for.At thirteen she had a place at government sports school.“If I work hard,”she thought,“I can be the fastest girl in Cuba.”
The other children at Ana's new school were tall and strong.But Ana's body was changing.She stopped growing taller and started growing fatter.She felt heavier too,so she practiced less often.Ana's future did
not seetbright and exciting to her now.