Preliminary rounds for this sport began today at London's Excel Centre.
Preliminary rounds for this sport began today at London's Excel Centre. Three competitors are at their seventh Olympics: Belgium's Jean-Michel Saive, Sweden's Jörgen Persson, and Croatia's Zoran Primorac, who uses the Timo Boll Spirit blade. Singles matches consist of best of seven games, with the winner of each game being the first player to eleven, with a two-point margin. Boris Johnson proclaimed four years ago in Beijing that this game would be "coming home", because, for 10 points, what indoor sport was invented in 19th-century England but since the early twentieth century has been dominated by China?
Preliminary rounds for this sport began today at London's Excel Centre.
table tennis ( or  ping pong, or  wiff waff)