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In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders (滑翔伞运动员) were in Australia to prepare for the World Championship. They included Ewa Wisnierska, a German paragliding champion (冠军) . One morning, as the 1 were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a terrible storm was coming. However, they decided to 2 . After all, these were the best paragliders in the world.
Unluckily, as they took off, the weather quickly became 3 . Ewa tried to get away from the storm, but two huge 4 came together and caught her.
The clouds pulled Ewa up inside the storm like a leaf in the 5 . She flew higher and higher, with lightning (闪电) and hailstones (冰雹) all around her. "I was 6 ," she told reporters afterwards. "The last thing I 7 was that it was dark. I could hear lightning all around me." She 8 to about 10, 000 meters high and then lost all her 9 . At that height, the temperature was about –40℃.
After forty minutes, Ewa woke up. She was still inside the storm. It was dark and hailstones were flying past. They were as big as tennis balls. Finally, Ewa came out of the storm cloud and 10 towards a small farm and landed 11 . She fell to the ground, too 12 . to call for help. When her team 13 her, she was 60 km away from the place where she took off. She was covered in ice—but 14 !
Ewa was sent off to 15 at once, but a few days later, she competed in the World Championship. "Flying is too fantastic to stop because of an accident," she said.
