希腊残奥会击剑运动员希望展示轮椅的威力

希腊残奥会击剑运动员希望展示轮椅的威力

"En garde!" the coach shouts. Two opposing fencers, uniformed and masked, raise their sabers before their own faces.

“预备!”教练喊道。两名对立的击剑手，身穿制服，戴着面罩，在自己面前举起剑。

Both Greek fencers, Panos Triantafyllou and Vasilis Ntounis, are in wheelchairs.

希腊击剑运动员帕诺斯·特里安塔菲卢和瓦西里斯·恩图尼斯都坐在轮椅上。

"Prêt, allez!" the coach shouts again, and the match begins. The sound of swift-striking sabers echoes inside the small indoor court in Athens' Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, where Greece's national team consisting exclusively of people with disabilities is training.

“好极了，哈利兹!”教练又喊了一声，比赛开始了。在雅典Apostolos Nikolaidis体育场的小室内球场里，快速击打的剑的声音回荡着，希腊国家队正在那里训练，那里只有残疾人组成。

Triantafyllou, 33. won silver at Rio's 2016 Paralympic Games and is getting ready for the Tokyo Paralympic Games in August. He's been picking up medals in the meantime: gold last November at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam and silver this month at the cup in Eger, Hungary.

33岁的特里安塔菲卢在2016年里约残奥会上获得银牌，目前正在为8月的东京残奥会做准备。与此同时，他一直在拿奖牌：去年11月在阿姆斯特丹举行的轮椅击剑世界杯上获得金牌，本月在匈牙利埃格尔世界杯上获得银牌。

He is currently ranked No. 2 of the year's best athletes by the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation, and he ranks fifth for Paralympics qualification for Tokyo 2020.

目前，他在国际轮椅和截肢运动员联合会的年度最佳运动员排名中名列第二，在2020年东京奥运会的残奥会资格赛中排名第五。

"Only the best 10 qualify for the Paralympics, or the ones who come first in the European tournament and the world championship get a direct qualification," Triantafyllou says. "Theoretically I qualify, but it's better to attend the last three tournaments ahead of the Paralympics."

特里安塔菲卢说:“只有成绩最好的10名运动员，或者是在欧洲锦标赛和世界锦标赛中获得第一名的运动员，才有资格直接参加残奥会。”“理论上我有资格，但最好是在残奥会之前参加最后三场比赛。”

Despite his huge success, he says Greece hasn't always been very supportive of people with activity limitations.

尽管他取得了巨大的成功，他说希腊并不总是非常支持那些活动受限的人。

"Greece gives to a person with disabilities an allowance of maximum 600-700 euro [every month], depending on the disability," he says, an amount equivalent to $660-$770. which is considered low by European Union standards. "If you can't work and don't have your own house, you simply don't get by. When you have to pay 400-500 euros [$440-$550] just for your rent, how can you handle your other expenses, like bills, food, etc.?"

他表示:“希腊(每月)根据残疾情况，向残疾人发放最高600至700欧元的补贴。”按照欧盟的标准，这一金额相当于660至770美元。“如果你不能工作，也没有自己的房子，你根本无法生活。当你不得不为房租支付400-500欧元(440- 550美元)时，你如何处理其他费用，如账单、食物等?”

According to a recently published report by Eurostat, in 2017 more than 82% of adults with disabilities in Greece lived in a household that struggled financially, the highest rate in the European Union and well above the EU average of less than 30%.

欧盟统计局(Eurostat)最近发布的一份报告显示，2017年，希腊有82%以上的成年残疾人生活在一个经济困难的家庭中，这一比例为欧盟最高，远高于欧盟不到30%的平均水平。

Triantafyllou was in a car accident on Nov. 21. 2004. that left him paralyzed from the thorax down.

2004年11月21日，特里安塔菲卢遭遇车祸，胸部以下瘫痪。

He considers himself one of the lucky ones because he received some insurance money, but it isn't enough: "They only cover your everyday expenses for some time," he says.

他认为自己是幸运儿之一，因为他得到了一些保险金，但这还不够:“他们只支付你一段时间内的日常开支，”他说。

Finances are just one challenge people with disabilities face. Triantafyllou says，Wherever you go, either you need medicines or whatever, you have to prove every time that you are disabled. It takes too long to get a permanent certification.

资金只是残疾人面临的一个挑战。特里安塔菲卢说，无论你走到哪里，无论你是需要药物还是其他什么，你每次都必须证明你是残疾人。要获得永久的认证需要很长时间。