日本乒乓球运动员福原爱宣布正式退役
Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara announced last Sunday that she is retiring from competition.
日本乒乓球明星福原爱于上周日正式宣布退役。"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.
她在博客上写道:“我最近一直在找寻一个答案,现在我已找到了。作为一名运动员,我止步于此。”"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.
她写道:“我第一次握起球拍是在我3岁零9个月时。10岁时我成了职业球员,11岁就进了国家队。”她还表示,这是一个漫长的旅程。
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.
现在日本的年轻选手进步的都很快,她称现在自己可以退役了,并希望能继续为乒乓球和体育界做出贡献。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岁的福原爱被认为是日本乒乓球界的“神童”。她很小的时候就去中国接受训练,能说一口流利的东北口音的普通话。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.
由福原爱带领的日本女子乒乓球队在2012年伦敦奥运会上获得了银牌,而在2016年里约奥运会上获得了铜牌。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,福原爱与中国台北的一位乒乓球运动员结婚,并在去年生下一名女儿,此后就再也没有参加过比赛。