八运会结束后第三天,我和孔令辉、刘国梁奔赴法国尼姆,参加在那里举行的第十八届世界杯男子乒乓球单打比赛。尼姆地处法国南部,城市虽小,但风景秀丽,气候宜人。那里的法国人不像巴黎人那样热情奔放,显得温和、含蓄。尽管如此,尼姆市民对乒乓球运动却情有独钟,在这座小城已经连续4年举办了乒乓球世界杯比赛,成为近几年世界男子一流乒乓球高手龙争虎斗的舞台。 On the third day after the Eighth National Games, I and Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang went to Nimes, France to attend the 18th Men’s Table Tennis Championships at the World Cup. Nimes is located in southern France, the city is small, but the scenery is beautiful and the weather is pleasant. Where the French people are not as passionate as the Parisians, appear modest and subtle. Nonetheless, Nim citizens have a special liking for table tennis but have held the Table Tennis World Cup for four years in a row in this town, becoming a stage where the world’s top men’s top-class table tennis players compete in recent years.