Transcript: Profile: Ping-Pong instructor in Los Angeles

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
07-30-2003
Profile: Ping-Pong instructor in Los Angeles

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Finally for this hour, we'll turn to another installment in the series we call My Fellow Americans: Sketches of People We Meet Along the Way.

(Soundbite of Ping-Pong game)

CHADWICK: Most of us think of Ping-Pong as a pastime for the back yard or the basement, but for some, table tennis is a passion--Wei Wang, for instance. She's a Chinese immigrant who was a member of the United States Olympic team in 1996. She did not win a medal then, but...

Ms. WEI WANG: I came here--it was not because Ping-Pong. It just happened--I love table tennis. And my ...

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