Japanese dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu looks and dresses more like a soccer manager in his early fifties than the world’s oldest Olympian at 71 years old.
Meet the Benjamin Button of this year’s London Olympics.
A national celebrity, Hoketsu greets you with a firm handshake, his sharp wit and fierce determination striking you immediately.
Photo: AFP
照片：法新社
“I don’t know how you’re supposed to feel at 71,” Hoketsu told Reuters in an interview on April 12, sitting bolt upright in a jacket and yellow tie.
“I have the same physique as I had at university,” added the German-based rider, who first competed for Japan as a 23-year-old show jumper at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Whippet-thin at 168cm tall and 62kg, Hoketsu steers clear of German food as much as possible.
“I cook four times a week and avoid oily food,” he said. “I don’t eat many sausages.”
(Reuters)
日本馬術選手法華津寬的外型與穿著打扮，看起來就像一名五十歲出頭的足球教練，而非七十一歲、全球最年長的奧運選手。來見過要在今年倫敦奧運上經歷奇幻旅程真人版的班傑明。
身為全國名人的法華津握手沉穩，而他敏銳的機智與堅強意志力隨即令人留下深刻印象。
「我不知道七十一歲應該有什麼樣的感覺，」坐得筆挺、打著黃領帶的法華津四月十二日的一場訪問中告訴路透。
「我現在的體格跟我唸大學時一樣，」這位以德國為基地、二十三歲時以超越障礙賽馬選手之姿、首度代表日本參加一九六四的東京奧運的選手說。
身材纖瘦、身高一百六十八公分、體重六十二公斤，法華津儘量避免吃德國食物。
「我一週下廚四次，避免油膩食物，」他說，「我也沒有吃太多香腸。」
（路透/翻譯：張沛元）
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