VOA常速英语2019--肯尼亚成立首支冰球队（在线收听）

Training takes place three times a week at Thesola ice rink. It’s here at Kenya’s Panera Sky Center that the Kenya Ice Lions, the first ice hockey team in Kenya, was formed. Tim Colbey moved to Nairobi from Ottawa in 2010 to offer the Canadian high commissioner. Several months later, he would help train and coach Kenya’s first ice hockey team. Years ago, a few of Kenyans really wanted to take it up, step it up a notch, play a lot more more serious, attract more people in a real hockey games. So we took it all with a few other Americans, Canadians, Slovak, Swedes and others. We start helping out a bit, but soon it didn’t take long for the kids to take it all over themselves.

一周要在索拉溜冰场进行3次训练。就是在肯尼亚的帕内拉天空中心，肯尼亚冰狮队——肯尼亚第一只冰球队诞生了。蒂姆·科尔贝2010年从渥太华搬到了内罗比，担任加拿大高级专员。几个月后，他会助力训练并教授肯尼亚的第一支冰球队。几年前，有几个肯尼亚人真地想担此重任，推动这项运动，认真百倍去从事这项运动，并在真实的比赛中吸引更多的人。所以，我们跟几个美国人、加拿大人、斯洛伐克人、瑞典人一起挑此大梁。我们只需领进门，孩子们就能自己修行了。

Up to last year, the Ice Lions team still did not have another team to play, so the Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons brought members of the team to play their first real game against the team of firefighters from Toronto.

直到去年为止，冰狮队依然没有参加过比赛，于是加拿大连锁餐厅蒂姆·霍顿斯带着队员来进行首战，对阵的是来自多伦多的一队消防员。

Gideoon Mutua was part of this team, and he says ice hockey has changed his life forever. My biggest dream is to play in a game. You get paid just to play, so one day I think my dream will be fulfilled. It is the young players where the future of Kenya ice hockey lies. It’s used to be about 10-12 Kenyans playing. Now up to around thirty. At least half of them are young. When I say young, I mean under fifteen which is really good for the sport in the future. Alibaba and Tim Hortons have provided sponsorship and equipment to the team. Support for the team has also come from Finland, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. While the Ice Lions still have no other team to compete against at home, they hope that things may change in the future as a new generation continues to embrace the game.

吉迪恩·穆图亚是该队的队员，他表示，冰球彻底改变了他的一声。我最大的梦想就是参加比赛。养兵千日，用兵一时，我相信总有一天会实现我的梦想。肯尼亚的未来要依靠年轻的球员。以前，玩儿冰球的大概有10-12人。现在大概有30人。而且至少一半都是年轻人。我所指的年轻人是指15岁以下的人，他们对冰球的未来大有裨益。阿里巴巴和蒂姆·霍顿斯为该队提供赞助和设备。该队也有部分支持来自于芬兰、瑞典和捷克斯洛伐克。虽然该队目前在本国还有可以竞赛的对手，但他们希望未来情况会发生改变，希望新一代人能够喜欢这项运动。