【Text/Observer Network Ruan Jiaqi】
The table tennis Qatar Open came to an end last night (8th), and the Japanese media crouching at the airport found that unlike before departure, Japanese table tennis star Ishikawa Yoshijun wore a mask this time!
It turned out that before the game, she had given the masks that were already in short supply to the Hong Kong players of the same team. As a token of gratitude, mainland fans and journalists sent back 100 masks.
Yoshinori Ishikawa, who returned from Doha, is pictured by Nikkan Sports
According to a report by Nikkan Sports on March 9, Yoshijun Ishikawa, a 27-year-old Japanese table tennis star and representative of the Tokyo Olympic Games, returned to Japan after the Qatar Open on the 8th.
On March 1, the Japanese women's table tennis team departed from Haneda Airport and made a group appearance, only Ishikawa was not wearing a mask.
Ishikawa explained in an interview at the time that there are too few masks in Japan, and she gave up the masks that were not much to the Hong Kong players in Hong Kong, China, who were in the same team as the "T League" in the Japanese professional table tennis league, because she thought it was more difficult for the other party to buy masks, resulting in insufficient mask reserves.
To step up his prevention, Ishikawa says he washes his hands 15 times a day, rinses his mouth carefully, and minimizes the number of times he goes out.
Ishikawa Yoshijun did not wear a mask when he went out to japan Picture from Tokyo Sports
Upon learning of the news, fans and reporters Chinese mainland quickly collected and sent about 100 masks for Ishikawa Yoshizumi. When he returned home after the game, Ishikawa had already put on a mask.
In an interview at the airport, Ishikawa Yoshizumi specially thanked the Chinese fans for their peach rewards, "Not only did they receive the concern of the Chinese fans, (they) also sent me masks, everyone is very worried about me, this time I will definitely do a good job of prevention." ”
On this trip to Doha, Ishikawa Yoshinori stopped the second round of women's singles, and lost to the Chinese players in the women's doubles semifinals with Miyu Hirano: "Although it was better than the last time, it did not win the game. There was a gap of a month, so I wanted to practice well. ”
Ishikawa, like retired Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara, has a lot of ties with China, not only training in China, but also speaking fluent Chinese, which is loved by Chinese fans.
Praised as a "Chinese eighth-level player", the anecdotes she translated for the Chinese national table tennis team once became a "good story" in the Chinese and Japanese table tennis circles.
At the 2018 World Table Tennis Championships in Sweden, the Chinese and Japanese women's table tennis teams were interviewed on the same stage. When a Japanese reporter asked a question about the chinese team members who won the championship, after the "triple translation" of changing Japanese to English and then Chinese, the meaning of the original question was misinterpreted.
Seeing the questioned Chinese team member Zhu Yuling with a question mark on her face, Ishikawa Yoshizumi, who was in a hurry for half a day, could not hold back, directly "robbed" the translator's work, and laughed at the scene.
The national table tennis women's team was relieved: Ah understood and understood...
Tokyo Sports reported that Ishikawa also mentioned that due to the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, this year's Qatar Open is also many different from the past.
This time, the players were exempt from handshakes and other etiquette on the field, and the balls on the court had to be picked up by themselves, and the participants' nasal mucosa was collected for examination before the game.
However, although she can feel the growing concern about the epidemic overseas, she still finds that few people abroad wear masks.
In addition, in response to the fact that the epidemic has led to the cancellation or postponement of various table tennis competitions around the world, the Japan Table Tennis Association is studying the plan to send Olympic participants to participate in low-level challenges to ensure the players' sense of competition. Ishikawa, who is highly likely to compete, said he was ready to go out at any time.
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