Memories are still fresh of the Togo team bus being attacked by gunmen in Angola two years ago.
安全问题成为本次比赛的重要问题,我们仍记得两年前,多哥队的车辆在安哥拉遭武装人员袭击。
A 16-year-old Dutch girl, Laura Dekker, has become the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed. She arrived in the Caribbean island of St Maarten a year and a day after she set sail. From The Hague, here's Anna Holligan.
16岁的德国女孩Laura Dekker成为单枪匹马进行全球航行年龄最小的人,她启程后的一年零一天后到达圣马丁的加勒比岛。Anna Holligan在海牙报道。
The voyage almost never happened. Truancy and child protection officers tried to stop Laura from setting sail on the grounds that she would miss too much school and that such a long trip wasn't safe for such a young girl. Eventually after a 10-month court battle and after agreeing to a checklist of safety measures, at 14, Laura was allowed to go. Now she said she'd rather not come back to the Netherlands because she feels the country stifles her freedom.
这样的航行真是前所未有!逃学和儿童保护官员认为Dekker会耽误很多功课,而且对于她这么小的女孩来说,这样的长途旅行实在不安全,因此就设法阻止Dekker启程。经过10个月的法庭辩论,并签署了安全措施清单,14岁的Laura最终获准航行。如今她说,她觉得这个国家束缚了她的自由,还情愿不回荷兰呢!