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| Miss Universe 2005
Natalie Glebova of Canada after being crowned Miss Universe
2005 in Bangkok May 31, 2005.
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Miss Canada Natalie Glebova was crowned Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok
on Tuesday at the climax of a beauty pageant that once again managed to
stumble into controversy.
Glebova, a 23-year-old motivational speaker from Toronto, succeeded
last year's winner, Australian Jennifer Hawkins, after the usual evening
gown and swimsuit parades that pull in TV viewers worldwide but
outrage feminists and
traditionalists .
Even though hotly tipped for the title, the final announcement appeared
to stun Glebova, who moved to Canada from her native Russia only 11 years
ago.
"This is all happening too fast and it's unreal. It's slowly starting
to sink in," she told
reporters moments after being crowned with the glittering,
diamond-encrusted Miss Universe tiara.
Dressed in a long white evening dress, she hugged her parents on stage
and then praised her new homeland for giving her and her family the chance
to start a new life.
"When we came 11 years ago, we came with nothing, and now we've got so
much," she said.
In all, 81 beauties from Albania to Zambia made it to Thailand, riding
elephants, touring temples and rollicking on tsunami-hit beaches in
the run-up to Tuesday's finale.
In the middle of the show, the conference hall fell silent for a minute
in memory of the more than 228,000 dead or missing from the Dec. 26 Indian
Ocean tsunami. Nearly 5,400 of the victims were in
Thailand.
(Agencies) |
本周二（5月31日），在泰國曼谷舉行的2005環球小姐選美總決賽中，加拿大小姐納塔利·格萊波娃艷壓群芳，奪得桂冠。與此同時，這項賽事再次招來爭議。
23歲的格萊波娃來自加拿大多倫多市。她在比賽中表現出來的演講天賦最終使她從上屆冠軍澳大利亞美女珍妮佛·赫金斯手中接過桂冠。環球小姐選美比賽包括晚裝和泳裝的角逐，吸引了全世界電視觀眾的目光，但同時也招來了女權主義者和傳統主義者的聲討。
盡管奪冠呼聲很高，但格萊波娃仍然對最終的結果感到吃驚。11年前，她才從祖國俄羅斯移民到加拿大。
戴上閃閃發光、鑲滿鉆石的環球小姐桂冠后，格萊波娃告訴記者：“這一切都來得太快了，簡直令人難以置信。我一下子還反應不過來。”
身穿一襲白色晚禮服的格萊波娃在舞臺上和父母緊緊擁抱在一起，然后她還感謝了她的第二故鄉加拿大。在那里，她和她的全家開始了全新的生活。
她說：“11年前我們兩手空空地來到這個國家，而現在我們已經獲得如此之多。”
總共81名佳麗參加了這次在泰國舉行的選美比賽，她們來自世界各地，如阿爾巴尼亞和津巴布韋。在周二總決賽之前的準備階段里，她們騎過大象，參觀了廟宇還去海嘯受災地區游玩。
總決賽進行過程中，整個會場為海嘯的死難者默哀一分種，以紀念在去年12月26日發生的印度洋海嘯中喪生或失蹤的22.8萬名受害者，他們中約有5400名泰國人。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2005-06-01 09:47
