Latest Table Tennis News - Olympics

[Highside]

These are the latest off the Olympic news hopefully i have done it correctly




• Mexico debuts in Table Tennis (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214510091.shtml)[2008-08-06]

• Li Jiawei: As good as new at the Singapore flag-raising ceremony (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214508550.shtml)[2008-08-06]

• Zhang Yining hopes to retain Olympic gold (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214434888.shtml)[2008-07-04]

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• Dutch decision against Keen is Blaszczyk's luck -- last minute replacements in Africa (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214433621.shtml)[2008-07-04]

• Ma Lin hopes to realize gold medal dream in Beijing (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214429946.shtml)[2008-07-02]

http://images.beijing2008.cn/20080702/Img214430244.jpg


• Nigeria, Congo to represent Africa at table tennis event (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214429390.shtml)[2008-07-01]

• Guo Yue heads towards Olympic Games (http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tabletennis/n214424487.shtml)[2008-06-28]

[DaveR]

The latest TV schedule for the Table Tennis on the Olympics is as follows........

http://www.sportfocus.com/newsimage/Olympic1.jpg


The BBC's schedule for the initial few days of the Olympic Table Tennis coverage has been released, available on satellite and free view via your red button, the events and times are as follows:

13th August
Men and Women’s team event, first round.
03:00 Live coverage
14:30
23:30

14th August
Men and Women’s team event, second round.
03:00 Live coverage
06:00

Men and Women’s team event, third round.
12:30 Live coverage

Singles and women’s doubles quarter-finals highlights.
22:30

Further information on the remaining television coverage will be released at a later date.

The complete competition schedule for table tennis is below, please note that the times shown are those local to the event.

http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2008/OG/2008OG_schedule.pdf (http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2008/OG/2008OG_schedule.pdf)

[Jose]

There's a great article by Matthew Syed in today's Times ... well worth going out and getting a copy. The article can be read via the ETTA website, but the newspaper has some good pictures of people playing outside.

[Jose]

This might get the story from the ETTA page...................HERE (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4472923.ece)

[DaveR]

Ive re done the link and yes ............... Matthew is a great writer and a great article.

[Spinmaster]

The whole article is well written plus has some frightening truths within its script.

Zhuang's role in the horrors did not come until after his spectacular promotion to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1972, a reward for his role in ping pong diplomacy. A fanatical Maoist, he chose to ally himself with the Gang of Four, the radical grouping led by Jiang Qing (Mao's third wife), thus implicating himself in some of the worst excesses of the era. But in the power struggle after Mao's death in 1976, the Gang of Four was arrested and Zhuang soon felt the dread hand of the state investigators.

[DaveR]

The draw for stage 1 of the team table tennis events have just been released, click on the desired catagory to see the draw.

Men's (http://www.ittf.com/ittf_team_events/team_groups_of_4_web.asp?Tour_Code=1665&s_Event_type=MGTEM)
Women's (http://www.ittf.com/ittf_team_events/team_groups_of_4_web.asp?Tour_Code=1665&s_Event_type=WGTEM)