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法國選手在戰雲密佈的美國~
French players feel welcome here
By Charles Bricker
Staff Writer
Posted March 4 2003
DELRAY BEACH · The anti-French sentiment that is showing
up in newspapers and on television doesn't seem to have
had any effect on the players or fans at the International
Tennis Championships, which began Monday at the Delray
Beach Tennis Center.
Jean-Rene Lisnard, who lives in Paris, won his opening
match against Lars Burgsmuller of Germany 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
and had to wade through autograph seekers to get to the
locker room for a shower.
There are three French players in the ITC, and none appears
uncomfortable here despite the bad blood between President
Bush and French President Jacques Chirac over the possibility
of war with Iraq.
"We are just here to play tennis,'' said Remi Barbarin,
who coaches Arnaud Clement.
Sebastien Grosjean, the No. 11-ranked Frenchman who has
lived in Boca Raton for three years, is not playing this
week, though he worked out Clement for an hour Monday. He
has seen the anti-French letters to the editor and has heard
the commentary on television.
"I don't really want to think about it. I'm a tennis player
and not a politician,'' Grosjean said. "But I don't feel
uncomfortable here at all. I feel really great here. This
is where I live. This is where my family lives. My daughter
goes to school here.''
Jeff Tarango, the American player whose wife is French and
who lives part-time in France, also is playing doubles here,
and he had a more expansive view of French-U.S. relations.
He said the tension originates more with Chirac than with
the French people.
But, he added, "Basically, the French people don't want
anything to do with wars. They want to be in their little
bubble and act like there's nothing going on anywhere in
the world except France. And the only way to do that is to
not acknowledge that anything is wrong.
"They've had bombings, tankers hit by terrorists, and they
don't want to admit it was terrorism. People over there
don't feel like there's a problem. The French are in a
complete world of denial.''
At an event in Dubai two weeks ago, Tarango was approached
by a couple of French players (Fabrice Santoro and Nicolas
Escude). "They wanted to know what I thought of George Bush
and his position.
"I told them it's like when you have a germ. If you don't
kill the bacteria right away it becomes a virus. You've got
a guy trying to exterminate humans on this planet, so what
alternative do we have but to search him out and get rid of
him?
"But French players don't really have a political agenda,''
Tarango said. "They're more into their Playstations and reading
L'Equipe [the national sports newspaper].''
Charles Bricker can be reached at cbricker@sun-sentinel.com.
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其實反戰的不止法國(俄德中etc.)
美國人因此而Anti French真是蠻怪的
反戰又不必然是反美啊...
看新聞說還有美國餐廳把french fries改名為freedom fries
只因為反法-__-
刀子臉跟小虎去問Tarango的政治立場... 蠻可愛的 哈哈
看樣子他們也是反戰的吧
Tarango的話自相矛盾
說法國選手不關心政治
那刀子臉跟小虎怎麼又會去問他呢?
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