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リオ五輪代表選考会を兼ねた水泳の日本選手権２００メートル決勝で、北島康介選手は５位に終わりました。
Swimming: Kitajima's Rio hopes dashed at national c'ships, set to retire
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kosuke Kitajima saw his hopes of appearing in a fifth-consecutive Olympics end after placing fifth in the men's 200-meter breaststroke final at the national championships on Friday.
Kitajima, who left the pool to thunderous applause, said it was too early to talk about his future plans, although he did say his time swimming in top level competition was "over."
The 33-year-old former two-time double Olympic champion came into the race needing to finish in the top two and also meet the qualifying standard time of 2 minutes, 9.54 seconds to have any hope of punching his ticket to Rio.
But he faded down the last 50 meters at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center and posted a time of 2:09.96 to finish well behind winner Yasuhiro Koseki.
Koseki clocked 2:08.14 for first place and was followed in second by Ippei Watanabe (2:09:45) as both secured tickets to Rio. Hayato Watanabe was third.
"Results are results and so whatever result you get you have to accept it," said Kitajima, who finished third overall in the semifinal heats. "If it had been a good result I could celebrate but when you lose the disappointment lingers."
"But I feel rather refreshed. I think I was aggressive until the end. The result was not good but I was able to swim once again with a feeling of determination to go to the Olympics. It hurts but I gave it my best shot."
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160409/p2g/00m/0sp/002000c
今回取り上げる単語は、見出しで使われている”dashed”です。すぐに思い浮かぶのは、現在形のdashの「急いで行く」という意味でですが、ここは受け身、過去分詞になっています。『ウィズダム英和辞典』（第３版、三省堂）を引いたところ、文章や報道において「〈人・事・物などが〉〈期待・希望など〉をくじく、打ち砕く」という意味で用いられると載っていました。また、例文として、
The defeat dashed our hopes of winning a medal.
が示されていました。目的語には”hope”をもってくることが多いようです。今回の記事の見出しでは”dashed”と受動態の形で用いられていますが、やはり主語に”hope”が用いられています。
８日に現役引退を表明した北島康介選手ですが、今後も水泳にはかかわっていくようです。
（Blue Sky）
“dash”は過去にも同ブログで取り上げられています、そちらもご覧ください。
