Jamie was filmed showing his skills at table tennis at the Woolwell club where his father is vice chairman.
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Eckehard Weiss, who coached Tim Kretschmer at table-tennis, told the BBC that he had been a relatively normal boy.
But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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Reached by telephone, an official at the Chinese Table Tennis and Badminton Center, which is affiliated with the country's General Administration of Sports, was unable to provide any information about Yu's status.
Some Olympic aspirants in table tennis start playing at age 6, according to Teodore Gheorghe, chief operating officer of USA Table Tennis.
The events are somewhat different from what you might have seen during the table tennis competition at the London Olympics.
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Manchester plays hosts to table tennis' christening at the Games, despite being an Olympic event since 1988.
The victory means China has won gold in every table tennis event played at the London Games and in Beijing in 2008, according to the official Games website.
At just 16 years old, rising table tennis star Ariel Hsing has more accomplishments under her belt than the average teenager.
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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Ariel Hsing, 16 and a rising U.S. table tennis star, is looking at colleges and an eventual career in business.
Other pieces include one put together by inmates at Lowdham Grange prison in Nottinghamsire and another exploring the sounds and rhythms of table tennis.
This table tennis simulation was originally meant to be a training project for a new engineer at Atari.
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.
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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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.
Lastly, as I look at the sports program for the 2016 Rio Games, I see sports like archery, badminton, canoe, and table tennis.
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