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Article: Table tennis legend to retire from next Olympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 18, 2004
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Table tennis legend to retire from next Olympics
ATHENS, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's table tennis legend and five-
time Olympian Jan-Ove Waldner said here Tuesday that he didn' t plan
to participate in the next Olympic Games to be hosted in Beijing,
China four years later.
"Even if I do well here in Athens and in the next (table tennis)
World Championships, I am not going to be present in Beijing 2008, "
said Waldner after he won a third round match against Serbia and
Montenegro player Aleksandar Karakasevic 4-2 Tuesday evening.
Waldner, who conceded the third and fifth game in the match, said
that he enjoyed the match "even if it was tough". "It was good for me
that I got the feeling ...
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