The 2017 Formosa Trail cross-country run kicked off on Saturday at Liyutan in Nantou County’s Puli Township. More than 600 competitors from 35 different countries took part in the 104km cross-country run through mountain forests which is the longest event of its kind in Taiwan.
Foreign athletes came from countries as far as northern Europe, Germany, Hungary and the US to take part, combining the competition with a holiday in Taiwan.
Petr Novotny, who hails from the Czech Republic and originally came to Taiwan to study for a PhD at National Taiwan University, is also a professional marathon and cross-country mountain athlete and organized the competition with his wife, Eva Lobo, who is a member of the Sediq Aboriginal tribe. After a year of work surveying a section of the Formosa Trail which runs through Puli Township and the Jenai area, last year the competition was held for first time and received the seal of approval from international athletes.
Photo courtesy of Taiwan Beast Runners
照片:跑山獸公司提供
Eva Lobo says that although Taiwan’s mountain forests are extremely beautiful, she is concerned that two things may put a dampener on the event: garbage and animal traps, which she fears foreign competitors would find troubling. Eva Lobo has called on her fellow countrymen to care for the mountain forests and refrain from despoiling nature.
(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)
二○一七福爾摩沙古道國際越野賽,昨於南投縣埔里鎮鯉魚潭登場,吸引了世界各地卅五國、六百多位喜愛山林越野的運動選手參加,其一○四公里的賽事,號稱全台最長越野距離。
選手有的遠從北歐、德國、匈牙利、美國來台參賽兼度假。
來自捷克的彼得.諾瓦尼,原本來台攻讀台大博士班,也是專業的馬拉松及山林越野選手,與賽德克族妻子羅勃.依婉,花了一年時間踏勘埔里、仁愛地區的古道,去年首辦即獲得國際選手的肯定。
羅勃.依婉指出,台灣山林真的很美,但最怕兩件東西煞風景,就是垃圾及捕獸鋏,這也是令國外選手感到困擾的問題。他們特別呼籲台灣人親近山林,也要愛護山林,別讓淨土蒙塵。
(自由時報記者佟振國)
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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