标题: Ariel Hsing, an Olympian of Table Tennis [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-22-2012 13:52 标题: Ariel Hsing, an Olympian of Table Tennis David wharton, Olympic Dream Is a DIY Effort; Ariel Hsing, 16, is an elite athlete in a low-profile sport, so she and her family are largely on their own. Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2012 (Column One). http://articles.latimes.com/2012 ... nnis-hsing-20120510
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"Ariel is headed for the 2012 London Olympics this summer as a member of the U.S. team
"Back when her [Ariel's] mother grew up in the Henan province of China, children took turns smacking balls across a concrete table in the schoolyard. Xin JIANG was good enough to be chosen for her city's team but faced a dilemma. 'We were so poor, there were no tennis shoes,' she recalls. 'I borrowed a pair of white shoes from my grandmother.' Two decades later, she had immigrated to the US and married a fellow computer engineer from Taiwan named Michael HSING.
The barrette means small bar.
(b) The report said, "Ariel never stops moving, bouncing, trying to stay in position so that, even on wide balls, she can maintain a compact, powerful swing."