They plan to share it with the family next door, which is buying a table-tennis table, and another neighbor, who's getting an air hockey table.
The communal areas are filled with fun: table tennis here, a pool table there, and there is a fine rooftop bar which doubles as the hostel's restaurant.
His compatriot Natalie du Toit, a single amputee swimmer, and Natalia Partyka, a Polish table tennis player who was born with one arm ending just below her elbow, competed at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing.
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Wada is not prosecuting a table tennis player who was found with a level a third higher than Contador's.
Meanwhile, Terry McLernon, who runs a successful table tennis club in Glasgow's Drumchapel housing scheme, has also been appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.
Footage of a toddler from Plymouth playing table tennis has proved to be a smash on video-sharing website YouTube.
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Even Cai Zhenhua, a former table-tennis star who is now a deputy sport minister, implied Chinese athletes suffered discrimination.
Mr Weiss said he had wanted to be a professional table-tennis player and had even played a match last weekend.
Drinkhall is hoping that will change later this year, when a new UK national table tennis centre is due to open.
Try as they may, the investigators may never know what happened to a talented table-tennis player who proudly held his trophies in school pictures.
The Duke and Duchess ended their public engagements at the Donald Dewar leisure centre, where they played each other in a short game of table tennis.
Ariel Hsing, 16 and a rising U.S. table tennis star, is looking at colleges and an eventual career in business.
Not long ago table tennis was a game played by geeky kids in youth clubs.
Mr. YONG: (Through translator) From physical size to reaction time to dexterity, I think table tennis is a more suitable sport for Asians.
There are a wide variety of shots used in table tennis.
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Table tennis, a sport now commonly associated with East Asia, is supposed to have started when British officials shaved the corks of their champagne bottles into balls and played the game on the dinner table.
Forget the gentle-paced table tennis played out in a mate's garage or down the youth club, the first to 21 points quick to gloat about his or her superior talent.
It was served with an injunction preventing any further work but the exterior was already completed and facilities including a training centre, medical facility, pool and table tennis tables, satellite television, internet and washing machines, have been set up inside.
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If you asked Americans to rank the most important sports to them, table tennis might come in somewhere a little above foosball or bumper pool.
Teams from Bath and Bethlehem will play football, netball, basketball and table tennis and also take part in a swimming gala.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
This table tennis simulation was originally meant to be a training project for a new engineer at Atari.
By all accounts, hardly anybody scored a single point, including several members of the Omaha-Metro Table Tennis Club.
Links of London's charm collection celebrates specific Olympic sports such as table tennis and badminton, so there is a ping-pong paddle and a shuttlecock, alongside hearts and clovers, symbolizing the themes of luck and love.
During practice Xu wore a big smile and a T-shirt emblazoned with the devastating slogan "The King of Table Tennis".
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It won every gold medal available in low-vote sports like table tennis and badminton but couldn't win a single "big state" sport.
As a sport that was originally played as an after dinner game on the dining tables of 19th-century English homes, table tennis seems to have come full circle as a social activity.
He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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You can watch music videos on a 50-inch plasma TV in the MTV Booth, or go gaming at the XBOX Kinect Room, a new sports experience that uses your voice and facial expressions to play table tennis, beach volley and even participate in track and field events.
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