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Article: Table tennis chief firm on limiting Chinese-born players
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 27, 2008
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Table tennis chief firm on limiting Chinese-born players
By Sportswriter Zhang Han
GUANGZHOU, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- World table tennis chief has been
stern on pushing the proposal of limiting the number of citizenship-
switching players, which to be voted on Friday by the board of the
sport's ruling body.
"I don't know exactly how many associations are in favor of
theproposal and how many are against. It depends on how each
association thinks about it," Adham Sharara, president of the
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), said here on Wednesday
at a press conference.
"If they only think about their own benefits, maybe some of them
will vote it down. But if they think what's the best ...