日本乒乓球運動員福原愛宣佈正式退役
Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara announced last Sunday that she is retiring from competition.
日本乒乓球明星福原愛於上週日正式宣佈退役。"Recently, I've found the answers within myself that I have been searching for. From the standpoint of an athlete, I'm drawing the line here," she wrote on her blog.
她在部落格上寫道:“我最近一直在找尋一個答案,現在我已找到了。作為一名運動員,我止步於此。”"I first gripped a racket at the age of three years and nine months, turned professional at 10 and began playing for the national team at 11," she wrote, adding that it had been a long journey.
她寫道:“我第一次握起球拍是在我3歲零9個月時。10歲時我成了職業球員,11歲就進了國家隊。”她還表示,這是一個漫長的旅程。
As the Japanese young players are making fast progress, she said she could now retire and hoped to continue to make contribution to table tennis and the sports communities.
現在日本的年輕選手進步的都很快,她稱現在自己可以退役了,並希望能繼續為乒乓球和體育界做出貢獻。The 29-year-old Fukuhara was regarded as a "child prodigy" in table tennis in Japan. She went to China for training at a very young age and can speak fluent Mandarin with a northeastern accent.
今年29歲的福原愛被認為是日本乒乓球界的“神童”。她很小的時候就去中國接受訓練,能說一口流利的東北口音的普通話。The Japanese women's table tennis team led by Fukuhara won the silver at the London Olympics in 2012 and the bronze at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
由福原愛帶領的日本女子乒乓球隊在2012年倫敦奧運會上獲得了銀牌,而在2016年裡約奧運會上獲得了銅牌。Fukuhara married a table tennis player from Chinese Taipei in 2016, gave birth to a baby girl last year and has not competed since.
2016年,福原愛與中國臺北的一位乒乓球運動員結婚,並在去年生下一名女兒,此後就再也沒有參加過比賽。