It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet the American and start building a bridge that will lead to August's Be...
It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet the American and start building a bridge that will lead to August's Be...
It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet the American and start building a bridge that will lead to August's Be...
Former Olympian Deng Yaping, otherwise known as the "Queen of table tennis" says the Sichuan earthquake won't dim Chinese people's passion for the Games. She now serves as the deputy director of the Olympic Village.
Tribune Photo/JANAR STEWART Mark Ajzinski, who competed in table tennis during the 2004 Summer Olympics, practices for a Tribune photographer Thursday.
BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 3: (CHINA OUT) Chinese table tennis player Wang Liqin displays a replica of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch during the ceremony to unveil the "Coca-Cola Olympic Stars Line-up" and officially launch Coca-Cola's Olympics torchbearer selection program around the country on July 3, 2007 in Beijing, China. The stars include Yao Ming, Chinese Olympic champions Liu Xiang, Guo J...
ATHENS, GREECE - AUGUST 20: Tischtennis: Olympische Spiele Athen 2004, Athen; Einzel / Maenner; Timo BOLL / GER enttaeuscht nach dem Ausscheiden 20.08.04. (Photo by Friedemann Vogel/Bongarts/Getty Images)
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