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Both film and table tennis depended upon the invention of celluloid – which plastic ping pong balls are made from.
During a recent visit to China, French President Emmanuel Macron was given the diplomatic works.
Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.
A new Olympic funding strategy aims to boost the finances of smaller Australian sports like table tennis – but will it actually work?
Now in their 70s and 80s, the team recalls being labelled as communists in Australia after their trip. But what mattered most to them was friendship.
The speeds at which top players deliver tennis serves are theoretically impossible. So how do they do it? The answer involves Isaac Newton, ping pong and a little bit of ‘cheating’.
Does sport really improve young people’s development?
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Professor and Head of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; Director, The Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland
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Performance Lead, QUT Sport, Queensland University of Technology
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