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Just watch this Christmas-themed compilation of the best serves, saves and spikes from the 2011 Table Tennis season, then try to tell me these guys aren't athletes. (Revised conventional wisdom for 2012: they are athletes, but their sport is dumb.) [via Kottke.org] More »
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What you see here, according to the ping-pong aficionados at Sport Post, is "international table tennis player Mattias Oversjo deliver[ing] an incredible no look spin shot against fellow Swede, Jörgen Persson." More »
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Silicon Valley engineers products and then exports them to the rest of the world. The latest innovation: ping-pong-playing robots disguised as small children, built from scratch to ruthlessly dominate the Olympics and win eternal glory for America. U-S-A! More »
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Last time we featured table tennis, the conversation focused on female players dressing sexier to attract more fans. But now, a pair of 14-year-old identical twins from Brooklyn are going to save the sport the old-fashioned way: with their paddles! More »
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Go ahead and start your Christmas wish list for 2009 [Mental Floss] More »
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If only this was the answer to every world problem. Famine? Women should dress sexier. War? Women should dress sexier. You see where I'm going here. That's because I'm following the lead of Claude Bergeret—the Gandhi of ping pong. Bergeret is head of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). And he wants the women to dress more like Japan's Naomi Yotsumoto. Bergeret told Yahoo: "We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts, not the shirts that are made for men, but ones with more curves." Yotsumoto has already taken the suggestion to heart. Per Yahoo:"At the Japanese national championships last year, she played in a daring ensemble of her own design: knee socks, a pleated mini-skirt and a shirt that left one shoulder bare." One shoulder bare? You'll have to excuse me now. Table tennis women urged to wear shirts with curves [Yahoo] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5039009&view=rss&microfeed=true From our pal Orson at The Fanhouse comes this old promotional video for the Chinese table tennis team. (And don't you dare let us catch you trying to call it "ping pong." These young ping-pongers — dammit! — have a flow quite dope. And they seem very happy to be rapping, that's for sure. More »
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