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Article: German trio pin hopes in Beijing for Olympic table tennis gold
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 10, 2008
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German trio pin hopes in Beijing for Olympic table tennis gold
BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Second-seeded Germany dreams on here
for a first ever Olympic medal of table tennis, as the highly-rated
trio found themselves even more rooted after Sunday's training at
the Peking University Gymnasium.
Following a special team ranking taking into consideration only
the players qualified from each team, the German men's team has been
seeded the second and drawn into Group B with Singapore, Croatia and
Canada.
"It's great that we are seeded second, which means we will not
meet China for a while," commented Dimitrij Ovtcharov here Sunday
after the training in the PUG main hall, the field of play for ...