Article: The table tennis is more Chinese than it seems

ALLON SINAI
Jerusalem Post
08-22-2008
Headline: The table tennis is more Chinese than it seems
Byline: ALLON SINAI
Edition; Daily
Section: Sports
Page: 12

Friday, August 22, 2008 -- There's dominance and then there's the Chinese at table tennis.

Watching the round of the last 16 of the women's Olympic competition on Thursday I couldn't help but wonder whether I might have accidently entered the Chinese national championships.

Nine nationalities were supposedly represented in the fourth round of the competition, but just three of the 16 players on show were'nt born in China.

There were two Chinese in Dutch uniform and another couple playing for the US. Even Austria and the Dominican Republic got ...

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