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By Greg Letts, About.com Guide to Ping-Pong

The Origins of Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Wednesday July 16, 2008
Gao Jun and other US Olympic Team members on the Great Wall of China Photo Feng Li / Getty Images.
About.com table tennis forum member RDIRT posted a link to this excellent article about the origins of ping-pong diplomacy, and the men who began it - Glenn Cowan of the USA and Zhuang Zedong of China. For those of you interested in the history of table tennis - or who first heard about it due to the ping-pong diplomacy rematch, this is a entertaining must read.

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