He had put his paddle down only momentarily so he could raise the flag aloft after realising his childhood dream to become Olympic table tennis champion. However, in a moment of absurd misfortune, ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's top female table tennis player, China-born Jeon Ji-hee, has an easy explanation for why she had to leave her homeland to compete in the game she loves. "There ...

China's table tennis team heads to the Paris Olympics on a mission to re-establish their complete dominance of the sport with a clean sweep of the gold medals on offer after their shock defeat by ...

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The Chinese dream team came to Paris on a mission to claim every gold medal on offer, after missing out on one in Tokyo - the inaugural mixed doubles title. Under enormous ...

For only the second time since 1992, a country besides China has claimed gold in an Olympic table tennis event. Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito interrupted China’s decades-long run of dominance in ...

KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — Yao Ming graced marquees for a decade in the NBA, spurring basketball's growing popularity in China. Table tennis needs the inverse: an eye-catching outsider to get the focus ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — Yao Ming graced ...