由于左脚严重骨折，姚明被迫停止NBA本赛季的其余场比赛，能否顺利参加北京奥运会也一时成为疑问。近日，姚明的经纪人表示，本周一姚明将在休斯顿接受左脚踝骨裂修复手术，术后需要3或4个月的康复期，不会影响参加奥运会。姚明本人也对术后恢复、备战奥运而信心十足。

Yao Ming will miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, dealing a crippling blow to the club in its postseason push.

China's All-Star center Yao Ming believes he will be fit for the Beijing Olympics despite facing an operation on a fractured foot, his Chinese agent said on Sunday.

Yao is expected to need three or four months' rest after an operation which China's state broadcaster said he would undergo in Houston on Monday. That would leave around two months to prepare for the Games which open on August 8.

"He (Yao) believes those two months are enough time to recover," his agent Zhang Mingji said in an interview with the Beijing News.

"I believe that by the Olympics, Yao Ming will have recovered 100 percent," Zhang added

China's Olympic basketball medal hopes are pinned on Yao, who had averaged 22 points and 10.8 rebounds for the Houston Rockets before his NBA season was cut short.

Zhang dismissed suggestions that Yao's injury was a result of playing too many matches.

"His bone fracture is not because he was played too much, it's a problem that arose because of the structure of his foot," Zhang said, explaining that Yao had high arches.

The 27-year-old is China's most popular sportsman and is a leading candidate to fulfil the prestigious role of lighting the cauldron at the Games' opening.

Vocabulary:

bone fracture：骨裂

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