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吳泓樂
在2013年8月14至19日， 我參加了加拿大溫莎舉
行的第47屆國際兒童運動會 (The 2013 Windsor
Essex International Children´ s Games (ICG))， 這 and the singing afterwards is great too, very nice. I like the x-sports later on
是一個非常盛大的運動會， 可算是兒童的奧林匹
克運動會， 來自全世界31個國家， 81個城市， 超過
1500名年齡介乎12至15歲的運動員參加棒球、足
球、籃球、排球、網球、游泳、體操及田徑等八
項運動。
雖然說是7 天的行程， 但是因為路途遙遠， 在加拿
大實際只停留了四天。加上颱風“尤特”吹襲香港，
航機延誤令我們趕不上接駁航機， 被迫入住多倫
多的酒店， 使我們無法進行場地適應的練習。
在三天內進行了五場比賽， 今次是我第一次在成
人棒球場進行正式比賽，面對身材高大威猛的美
加運動員，在時差影影響以及只准許使用標準木
棒的情況下，對我來說可算是一個很大很大的挑
戰。 五場比賽下來，初時被對手大比數狂炒。慢
慢習慣後，在最後的一埸比賽大家都打得很好，
在5局上時比數是6：7落後1分， 可惜大家太緊
張，再加上對方的強棒， 我們再敗下來， 與季軍
緣慳一面。
在訓練及比賽過程中， 我學會了很多深難度的戰
術策略， 改善了投球動作，我還發覺接高波時太
陽眼鏡的重要。
這個行程還有一段小插曲，因為航機延誤後接駁
機位的供應問題，不能全隊搭乘同一班航機， 分
批乘搭的結果是：我和吳汶軒二人自己搭乘1 小
時的航程的內陸機，由於身穿港隊的制服，一下
機便有四名ICG大會的工作人員來接待我們2個小
朋友， 他們都奇怪地問我們是否只有2人。 領取
行李後更帶領我們到接駁車， 跟著司機叔叔便開
著一台旅遊巴送我們到學院宿舍， 哈哈！無驚無
險下我覺得自己突然長大了啦。
3VO @ JOEE
Anthony Fung
It’s finally over and I have lots to say, I even got a lot of feelings that can’t be
expressed by words, although I only met them a few days but we chat like
good old friends that are missed for years. Personally I favored the team Detroit
more because they are the nearest baseball team to us which gave us enough
time to know them well and play, chat with them.
In the opening ceremony I was shocked by seeing those crowds cheering for us
and I’m thinking that we got to win this tournament to not let them down, I’ve
seen so many countries in the map but it is my first time to see so many people
with different nationalities standing together and start the game, the dancing
the ceremony with bikers doing different special moves it’s very exciting and I
worry for them because they fail sometimes and crashed hard on the ground.
I made some friends, mostly in the team Detroit. Which included Troy and
Aakif, they are really nice and good players, although they are 15 years old
but we have one topic or more in common – the MLB. As a citizen lives in
Detroit, they support the Detroit Tigers really hard. But I rarely heard of them,
I supported the Toronto Blue Jays because my relatives live there and whatever
they bought me is all about Blue jays.
Back to this tournament, sadly we lost all of the games. But as Dr. Ip said: ‘’we
learned a lot”, first game versus the home team---Windsor Essex. We’re all
freaked out of their size, their muscles and the power that they’ve got. We had
lost 18:0 in that game. We had disadvantage in this tournament because we
need to play two doubleheaders in two days while the others only had to play
it once. That afternoon we played against Marion, Indiana and lost 12:2 too.
I think we can win this game if we didn’t lost 10:0 already in the first inning,
how sad it is.
And then in the next day we lost 16:0 to Detroit I guess and lost 18:0 to
Windsor again in the same day, the only excuse that we can say is the sun is
blocking our eyes so that it makes our outfielder eras and it’s the first time that
we use wooden bats so our attacking is not as we predicted. But these are NOT
excuses, our coaches can’t accept that! For the last game in this tournament the
bronze medal game, we are tied up to the Indiana all the time but finally they
break through our line of defense at the bottom of sixth inning and we lost that
game too.
The closing ceremony is great too, we walk the parade and get cheered by
the crowd and we saw a lot of big balloons and it’s just like a big party for
everyone in the riverside. We then take a walk around, exchange pins and
clothes and chat with some girls. Like with the Freiberg, Germany team, we
take photos with Annabelle, Vanessa, Sophie B. and Elizabeth. It’s fun and
we don’t want to leave the teams that we’ve played with and I want to play
more friendly games.
The night before we left, we had to do 150 push-ups due to all sorts of
lateness and carelessness within the team members. It was really hard! And
just late in that night, I stayed up chatting and playing with part of the team
Detroit and exchanged jerseys with them. I gave them all my snacks and a
bag from my last tournament in return for a bracelet from Troy. Funny was
Troy’s brother brought it from Chinatown in Vancouver! I didn’t ask for
his gift but I do appreciate and treasure the friendship. What an awesome
International Children Games! Hope I see them soon!
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