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the only sport where a tiny ball can travel faster than your regret.
means A fast-paced racket game, also called table tennis, in which two or four players bat a small lightweight ball back and forth across a low net on a table.
from Pure onomatopoeia: the name imitates the sound of the ball — 'ping' off the paddle, 'pong' off the table. It caught on as a playful nickname in late-19th-century England and was trademarked as 'Ping-Pong' by a sporting-goods company, which is why the more neutral 'table tennis' became the official name once the sport got serious.
- olympic since
- Added to the Games in 1988
- top speed
- Smashes clock over 70 mph
- banned origin
- USSR banned it briefly, fearing eye damage
- diplomacy tool
- Reopened US-China relations in 1971
- china dominates
- Won 32 of 37 possible Olympic golds