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Justine Henin: Match Over
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She became the world's No. 1 women's tennis player thanks to her cool and clinical attitude. But even she couldn't muster that upon announcing her retirement
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エナンのコメント
http://tennis.daynight.jp/2008/05/henin_comments.htmlいろんなニュースからエナンのコメントを拾ってみました。 以下、切り貼りして再構成したものなので、この通りに言ってるわけではないですが、大体の内容は分かるかなと思います。ASAP sportsに全文出るかと思って待ってたんですが・・・ エナンのことは知らないけど、こういう大きな決断をするのを見るのってなんだか切ないです。 子供のことから人生のすべてだったことをやめるのって、どんな気分なんだろう？ 「これはすばらしい冒険の終わり、5歳の時から見てきた夢の終わりなの。」 「ページがめくられようとしている。悲しみは感じないわ。それよりほっとしてる。多くの人たちにはショックだと思うけど、この決断は、私が長い間真剣に考えてきたことなの」 「私は経験できるすべてを経験した。テニス人生を全うしたの。ほっとしてるし、自分の成し遂げたことを誇りに思うわ」 「私は世界No.1として去る。これが大事なことなの。トップにいる時出て行く方がいいものよ」 「私は感情に駆り立てられてキャリアを築いてきた。でも去年、シーズンの終わりにマドリッドで優勝してから、もうその感情を感じることはなかった。マドリッドで、私はキャリアの頂点に達したと感じたの」 「私はいつでも自分の中にあるモチベーション、この炎に支えられてきた。だからそれを失ってしまったら、本当にたくさんのものを失ったわ」 「何もかもが厳しくなった。自分の奥深くで、何かが自分の手を離れたと感じたの」 「私は完璧主義者だから、この数か月、奇跡を求めて、自分の中にあった欲望と炎を取り戻そうと真剣に戦ったわ。でもベルリンでの試合の最後になって、（引退が）突然はっきり現われてきたの。私は道の終わりにいるんだと気づいたのよ」 「休みを取ることも考えたわ。でも結局それが正しい決断だとは思えなかった。ベルリンからの帰り道、もうやめようと決めたの。自分をだますのはやめて、受け入れようと決めたのよ」 「ウィンブルドンでの優勝が、私を今より幸せにしてくれると思わない。あそこで勝てるとも感じなかったし」 「ローラン・ギャロスの前にやめたのは、去年よりいいローランギャロスをやれるかと自分に聞いたとき、やれないと気づいたからよ」 「私は自分の限界に達した。この決断ができてほっとして、力強く感じるわ。 私ができることはたくさんある。後悔はないわ。テニスでしなきゃならないことはすべてやったから」 「長い、本物の休暇を取るわ。ランニングはやるつもりよ。何かを賭けてやるんじゃなく、ただ楽しみのためにね。私、スキーをやったことないの。来年は冬の間じゅうやろうと思う。小さな喜びを再発見したいの。明日のトレーニングに行かなくちゃならないからって四六時中時計を見てるんじゃなくてね」 「私と同じ年の人たちは、ほとんど学生か働き始めたばかりなのに、私はもう3回も人生を生きたような気がするわ」 ソース： Justine Henin: Match Over TIME No. 1 Justine Henin retires from tennis immediately Yahoo! Sports Ranked No. 1 in World, Henin Decides to Retire The New York Times Justine Henin hangs up her racket Telegraph
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Justine Henin Retires!
http://www.daleisphere.com/2008/05/14/justine-henin-retires/Say it isn’t so. I was just starting to warm up to her. Up to very recently, world number 1 Justine Henin had been one of my biggest tennis villianesses. Ironically, my multi-year distaste for Justine started with her refusal to replay a key point against Serena Williams at the 2003 French Open. The crowd turned against Williams as she rightly protested the point that the replay (unseen by the crowd) clearly showed went unfairly to Henin - and Henin knew it! I say this is ironic because Justine’s victim was Serena Williams, another woman’s tennis star I love to dislike. Justine compounded my distaste for her when she bowed out, seemingly feigning illness, in the 2006 Australian final against Amelie Mauresmo. This was a key win for Mauresmo who had been ridiculed as the then ‘best woman’s tennis player never to have won a slam’. Justine’s early departure thus tainted Mauresmo’s claim to a true grand slam championship win. Happily Mauresmo won the following Wimbledon against Henin, sealing her reputation as a bona fide grand slam winner (and as we now know, preventing Henin from clinching all four slams). As with politics and life in general, my respect for a person hinges to a large degree on their humility and sense of fair play - and Justine showed none of these qualities in those and other critical moments in her career - nor, until very recently, at almost any time thereafter. But what she did show consistently, year after year, was a first class sports ethic. No woman’s player was more prepared, more fit, more tenacious than Justine. When Justine took the court I expected her to win. Simply put, with 41 career titles, including 7 grand slam titles (only Wimbledon alluded her), she was one of the best tennis has seen (man or woman) and one of the few women’s tennis stars I admire. In the last year or so I started to enjoy her tennis and started cheering for her (particularly when she played against Williams or my new-found villainess Maria Sharapova). As she reconciled with her family and divorced her husband, she started to seem human again. And then she retired. I’m hoping that like my favourites Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport, she’ll return to tennis in a year or two - she’s only 26. For that matter, I’d like to see her fellow country-woman Kim Clijsters return from her stunningly early 2007 retirement at the age of 23. This is sad news. As one of the few bright stars in women’s tennis, Justine will be missed. More Coverage: New York Times | Sports Illustrated | ESPN | Time
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TK LEAVES JOB HE REALLY LEFT YEARS AGO
http://www.withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=5760Coming as a shock to the hundred of fans of his radio show, Tony Kornheiser took a brief break from discussing American Idol. This momentous shift in programming was done so he could announce that he was the latest of dozens of employees that have taken the voluntary buyout from The Washington Post, that redoubtable money-bleeding newspaper he's pretended to write for the last few years. "All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer," he said, which is likely not something that anyone under the age of 30 will ever say again. "This other stuff is great, but I don't care about it," he continued. "In my mind that's what it says on the headstone, it says 'newspaper guy.' " Awful touching for a guy whose paychecks all now say "radio guy," "TV bloviator," and "Monday Night Football's top Tom Brady fluffer". Not wanting to startle listeners too much, he mixed in his plaintive memories of when The Post mattered with, hey!, Idol. "There was not enough wine in the world, there wasn't, not last night," he said. "I'm watching 'Idol,' and I'm thinking about all these things, and I don't know who I'm supposed to talk to about this....It just feels odd. It feels odd and it feels bad. It doesn't feel sad, there's no sadness to it, it just feels wrong." Wow. What a profound loss. Readers will surely miss the two paragraphs he'd toss off for page 2 of the sports section every few days. Or the humorously annotated NCAA bracket every March. I worked for the paper for three years and I never once so much as glimpsed the guy at the office. But he was a presence, boy howdy. Now that damn Paul Farhi can write vapid pieces in the Style section without any fear of reprisal. In news about people didn't wait 10 years too long to retire: Annika Sorenstam is calling it quits at the end of the year (Oh yeah, and Justine Henin). If you get bored, Annika, you can probably talk golf on a TK's show, so long as you laugh at everything he says and limit any non-Idol discussion to 30 seconds. Were you on Idol, by the way?
