【英語でニュースを】フィギュア･スケートの羽生選手のアクシデント：This is not the time to be a hero.

昨日のエントリーでアメリカでもスポーツにおける脳震盪の問題が大きく議論されていることを紹介しました。

アルコムの旅人さんからいただいたコメントがきっかけとなり、今回のアクシデントが英語圏のマスコミでどう扱われているのか調べてみました。

まずはNBC Sportsです。
Hanyu takes 2nd at Cup of China after scary crash

アクシデントとその後の試合の様子を伝えていますが、負傷時のOserの言葉が載っていますね。

"He was immediately determined he wanted to compete, and for me, I wanted to make sure he was healthy enough," he said. "I told him, `This is not the time to be a hero. You have to take care of yourself."'

脳震盪に対する専門的な知識があったかどうかは知りませんが、少なくとも観察する限りでは意識障害もなく、かなりはっきりと受け答えを羽生選手は出来ていたのでしょう。(ただ、それでも私は止めたかったという立場ですが)

WSJのアップデート記事では帰国時の空港での様子を紹介しています。
Figure Skater Hanyu Returns to Japan in a Wheelchair

今回のアクシデント後の対応について疑問を発し、大胆な提言をしているのが次のWebサイトです。

So what do we learn out of the accident involving Yuzuru Hanyu and Han Yan?

Now let me ask you that: was this horror sequel of the accident really necessary? How on earth were these two skaters allowed to enter the ice after a clearly damaging crash? If this was the skaters’ decision, to carry on with the skate in spite of the impact, couldn’t they be stopped? Isn’t there a protocol for that? Who was supposed to intervene in this kind of situation? Their coaches? Someone from the organizing committee?

ぶつかった選手たちだけでなく、残りの出場者のほとんど全員が精神的に動揺していたのですね。別の記事でも読みましたが、下記"The feeling I didn't want to skate overpowered me"という言葉があります。

From where I stand, the right, the healthy thing to be done was to send these two boys directly to the hospital for a check-up and postpone the rest of the event to the following day; because, obviously, the four remaining skaters had been affected by the incident: the impact of the crash itself, the delayed warm-up, their delayed performances… How on earth could the 16-year-old Nam Nguyen have stayed calm and undistracted during his routine, knowing that Yuzuru Hanyu, his training mate at Toronto Cricket Club, had been involved in such a scary accident? Skating right after Yuzuru Hanyu, the Russian Maxim Kovtun won the gold eventually, but there was no sign of happiness in the Kiss and Cry while seeing the scores; and later during the day, in an interview with Elena Vaytsekhovskaya for sport-express.ru, Maxim stated with sincerity: “The feeling I didn’t want to skate overpowered me. I just wanted it to be over fast. I wasn’t thinking about the skate, about the elements; just that I didn’t understand what was happening to me. To be honest, I don’t remember ever having so many thoughts at once…”. As for the quietness in the Kiss and Cry, “All I thought was «Thank God this nightmare is finally over»”.

現実的には難しい側面もありますが、とにかくすぐに病院なり専門家の判断をということには賛成です。延期できれば確かに一番良いですね。