SHANGHAI, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The clear sound of ping-pong balls hitting paddles resonates throughout the bright training hall. At a table, 23-year-old Geoffrey Loi is practicing ping-pong ...
A boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is not the right way to call attention to China's mounting human rights violation, says one of the first U.S. athletes to ever play in the country.
If you asked Americans to rank the most important sports to them, table tennis might come in somewhere a little above foosball or bumper pool. But in China this is a national craze, and rabid fans ...
The U.S. and Chinese national table tennis teams held a joint practice Monday night at the George R. Brown Convention Center in honor of the 50th anniversary of 1971’s ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’ brokered ...
Never mind high-pressure peace talks that fail amid the looming threat of warfare. Try wrestling or ping-pong diplomacy instead. For the first time in years, North Korean and South Korean officials ...
Half a century ago, a group of American table tennis players walked across a bridge near Hong Kong into mainland China, and an astonished world watched in disbelief. Over the course of a week, the ...
Ping-pong in space? Sounds awesome. But footage shared by Chinese media of astronaut Deng Qingming whacking a ball around in the country’s Tiangong is frankly very puzzling. The ball always returns to ...
The best table tennis players in the world descended upon Japan in March of 1971, all looking for championships. Shortly after the tournament ended in April, the eyes of the world shifted to the ...