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Article: Olympian goal for table tennis
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 4, 1986
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When South Korea hosts the 1988 Olympic Games, table tennis will
be a medal event for the first time.
Hence a resurgence of American interest in "ping-pong," which
started as an English parlor game around the turn of the century.
Already, the U.S. Olympic Committee has doled out nearly $200,000 of
the $500,000 budget the U.S. Table Tennis Association has requested
for its effort to field the best possible team.
Much of that money has gone to the USTTA's elaborate training
facility at Colorado Springs under the direction of Bob Tretheway
and former Chinese champions Liguo and Henan Ai. That's where the
U.S. hopes to produce world-class players who can hold their own