在赛场内展现出两周的青春风采，而赛场外却伴随着后勤管理的混乱和公众兴趣的低迷，第20届日本亚运会的帷幕已正式落下。
After two weeks of youthful brilliance on the field amid logistical dysfunction and subdued public interest off it, the curtain has come down on the 20th Asian Games in Japan.
亚洲奥林匹克理事会（OCA）主席谢赫·乔安·本·哈马德·阿勒萨尼周日在水户公园田径体育场宣布本届亚运会闭幕，并将火炬移交给了2030年卡塔尔多哈下一届赛事的组委会。
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) president Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani declared the Games closed at Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium on Sunday, with the torch handed to organisers of the next event in Doha, Qatar, in 2030.
约有17000名运动员和官员参加了爱知-名古屋的这场盛会，参赛人数超过了巴黎奥运会。运动员们在从东京到大阪的多个场馆中，参加了涵盖469个金牌项目的角逐。
Some 17,000 athletes and officials came for the Aichi-Nagoya showpiece – more than the participants in the Paris Olympics – with athletes competing in 469 gold-medal events spanning Tokyo to Osaka.
一名表演者骑着马，手持亚洲奥林匹克理事会旗帜，在闭幕式上亮相 [David Gray/AFP] 这种宏大的规模与组委会所规划的“简单、精简且功能性的赛事”形成了鲜明对比，结果往往显得混乱不堪。
A performer carries the Olympic Council of Asia flag on a horse during the closing ceremony [David Gray/AFP] The massive scale clashed with organisers’ planning for a “simple, streamlined and functional event” — and the results were often chaotic.
运动员和代表团抱怨住宿和交通安排出现失误，令尴尬的组委会不得不多次致歉。
Athletes and teams complained of bungled accommodation and transport, prompting repeated apologies from the embarrassed organising committee.
尽管面临诸多挑战，但青少年巨星的出色表现提升了本届赛事的格调。其中，中国13岁游泳选手余依婷领衔，她荣获本届赛事女子最有价值运动员（MVP）称号。余依婷在东京的泳池中夺得三枚个人金牌，正朝着在洛杉矶奥运会上取得巨大成功迈进。
Despite the challenges, the games were lifted by the performances of teenage titans, led by China’s 13-year-old swimmer Yu Zidi Awarded the female Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the games, Yu is on track for a huge Los Angeles Olympics after claiming three individual gold medals in the Tokyo pool.
她在200米个人混合泳中以第二快的成绩夺冠，为与加拿大世界纪录保持者萨默·麦金托什之间的巅峰对决奠定了基础。
She swam the second-fastest time in winning the 200 metres individual medley, setting up a battle royale with Canada’s world-record holder Summer McIntosh.
她19岁的队友张展硕成为首位在本届亚运会上夺得七枚金牌的游泳运动员，而日本17岁的天才选手大桥悠也打破了200米蛙泳世界纪录。
Her 19-year-old teammate Zhang Zhanshuo became the first swimmer to win seven golds at the games, while Japan’s 17-year-old wunderkind Shin Ohashi smashed the 200m breaststroke world record.
田径赛场同样被年轻运动员点亮，中国18岁的阎子怡投出了世界级的成绩，赢得女子标枪金牌；20岁的泰国短跑选手普里波尔·布恩松则包揽了100米和200米冠军，成为男子最有价值运动员。
Track and field events were lit up by young athletes as well, with China’s 18-year-old Yan Ziyi producing a world-class throw to win the women’s javelin gold while 20-year-old Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson swept the 100m and 200m to become the men’s MVP.
20岁的泰国选手普里波尔·博松摘得两枚金牌和一枚银牌，还刷新了两项亚运会纪录。[Toru Hanai/Getty Images] 由于未设立专门的运动员村，尽管存在诸多后勤问题及偶尔的外交失误，运动员们仍坚持完成了比赛。
Thailand’s Puripol Boonson, 20, won two gold medals and a silver, as well as set two new Asian Games records [Toru Hanai/Getty Images] No games village The athletes performed despite regular logistical failures and occasional diplomatic gaffes.
“住宿、交通及其他方面的问题似乎影响了很多代表团，”香港代表团团长黄宝琪周日对路透社说道。
“Accommodation, transport and other issues — it seems a lot of teams were affected,” Hong Kong team chef de mission Wong Po-kee told the Reuters news agency on Sunday.
为节省开支，主办方并未修建专门的运动员村，而是安排运动员和官员们入住各类酒店、集装箱式住宿单元甚至一艘游轮。
Organisers opted to house athletes and officials in a mix of hotels, wooden container units and a cruise ship to cut costs rather than build a dedicated athletes’ village.
原本的预算是接待1.5万名运动员及官员——这一数字比实际注册人数少了约2000人——但实际执行过程中仍难以妥善管理。
They budgeted for 15,000 athletes and officials — about 2,000 fewer than total registrations — and struggled to manage them.
大批运动员抵达后需等待长达12小时才能完成入住手续。办理入住时，不少人发现自己的房间被重复预订，或是被其他队员占用。
Waves of athletes spent up to 12 hours waiting to beed on arrival. While checking in, some found their rooms double-booked or being shared by the wrong teammates.
整个赛事期间交通问题层出不穷：运动员专用班车时常失约，或是将他们送至错误的场馆，不少比赛也因此被迫延期。
Transport problems dogged the games throughout, with athletes’ shuttle buses failing to turn up or taking them to the wrong venues Several competitions were delayed due to these errors.
韩国代表团对此尤为不满，其代表团团长给本届亚运会的组织工作打了“F”级评分，也就是最低等级。
South Korea’s delegation was particularly aggrieved, with their team chef de mission marking the games’ organisation with an “F”, the lowest grade.
周六，韩国男足击败日本队夺得金牌，但在随后的颁奖仪式上，由于国旗未能顺利升起，国歌也无法播放，队员们对此十分懊恼。
South Korean men’s footballers were upset when their national flag could not be hoisted for the national anthem at the victory ceremony after they beat Japan for the gold medal on Saturday.
此前还发生过另一起尴尬的失误：在韩国男曲棍球队夺冠时，现场播放的却是朝鲜国歌。
Earlier, the North Korean national anthem was played for South Korea’s men’s hockey team in another awkward mix-up.
亚运会闭幕式上的表演。[David Gray/AFP] 东京奥运会因新冠疫情限制措施而取消观众入场，五年后日本举办的这场大型综合性体育赛事却遭遇了观众寥寥的尴尬局面。
Performers at the closing ceremony of the Asian Games [David Gray/AFP] Five years after the Tokyo Olympics were staged without fans due to COVID-19 restrictions, Japan’s first major multisport event was blighted by poor crowds.
在一场可容纳5万名观众的女子足球半决赛中，仅有不到1000名观众到场观看东道主击败韩国队。
Fewer than 1,000 spectators watched the hosts beat South Korea in a women’s football semifinal at a 50,000-capacity stadium.
许多规模较小的场馆也几乎空无一人，不过这些场馆大多地处偏远地区，交通不便也是导致观众稀少的原因之一。
Much smaller venues were often nearly empty, though many were based in far-flung locations, making access a challenge.
“如果非要我说的话，我觉得这次亚运会并不算成功，”在闭幕式前接受路透社采访时，观看了多场比赛的名古屋市民户田直子这样说道。
“If I had to say, well, I don’t think it was a success,” Nagoya resident Naoko Toda, who watched several competitions, told Reuters before the closing ceremony.
尽管存在诸多问题，亚奥理事会仍宣布爱知·名古屋亚运会是一次成功的盛会，并称赞主办方在经费控制方面做得出色。
Despite the issues, the games’ governing body OCA declared Aichi-Nagoya a success and praised organisers for their frugal arrangements.
中国以169枚金牌、总计341枚奖牌位居奖牌榜首位，创下了中国代表团在境外参加亚运会以来的最佳成绩。
China topped the table with 341 medals, including 169 gold, with its best haul at an overseas Asian Games.
日本也令国内观众大饱眼福：共斩获269枚奖牌，其中金牌数高达83枚，打破了1994年广岛亚运会时创下的纪录。
Japan also delivered for fans who tuned in, with 83 gold medals out of 269, smashing its previous record at Hiroshima 1994.
本届亚运会共设43个大项，创下了历届之最；壁球、综合格斗、踢球以及冲浪等项目均首次亮相，规模远超巴黎奥运会。
Padel, mixed martial arts, teqball and surfing made their games debuts in a record 43-sport programme that dwarfed the Paris Olympics.
下一届亚运会定于2030年由卡塔尔承办，不过亚奥理事会可能会决定将其推迟一年举行，以便作为2032年布里斯班奥运会的亚洲区资格赛。
Qatar is set to host the next continental games in 2030, though the OCA may elect to push it back a year to serve as the continent’s Olympic qualifiers before Brisbane 2032.