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| 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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| What's in my mail bag? Photo © 2007 Greg Letts, licensed to About.com, Inc. |
| It's nearly time for me to head to Melbourne, Victoria to compete in the Australian Open, so I thought I'd try to catch up on my email before leaving. Here's a sampling from my mail bag: |
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