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The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1] [2] A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions.
Table tennis is among the sports contested at the Summer Olympic Games. It was introduced at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where singles and doubles tournaments were held for both genders. [1] The men's and women's doubles events were dropped from the 2008 Summer Olympics program and replaced by team events. [2]
Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women. [1] [2] Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 66 medals in 42 events, including 37 out of a possible 42 gold medals, and only failing to win at least one medal in one event, the inaugural men's singles event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Zeng, now 58, laughed Saturday afternoon when asked if she could have ever imagined playing in the Olympics four years ago when she started playing table tennis again.
Sweden's Truls Möregårdh pulled off the upset of the 2024 Paris Olympics after he defeated China's Wang Chuqin, the top-ranked table tennis player in the world, in men's singles action on Wednesday.
Table Tennis: Women's Team Bronze Medal Team Match: 4 a.m. ET on CNBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com. Women's Team Gold Medal Team Match: 9 a.m. ET on CNBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.
Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic ...
O'Neill contributed to NBC's Olympic Coverage in Athens in 2004, and was the color commentator for table tennis in Beijing in 2008, London in 2012, Rio in 2016, and Tokyo in 2021. He has also covered the 2009 and 2010 World Championships for NBC Universal Sports plus the 2015 and 2016 US Nationals for One World Sports.