The two individual gold medalists in table tennis were - surprise - both Chinese. For the men, it was this energetic man below, Ma Lin.
And for the women it was Zhang Yining, who despite owning as many gold medals as any other table tennis player is Chinese history (four), says that if she's had to do it all over again, she wouldn't want to be an athlete.
Me thinks they take table tennis a bit too seriously in China.
Now, so you don't get too bored, there's a reason I posted this. And it's because back in 2005, the Chinese Table Tennis team made a rap video, and - you guessed it - both Zhang and Ma dropped some dope verses in it. Here it is.
Now, I realize you have no clue what anyone is saying, but here are a few of the lyrics.
I rotate my backhand with sliding step and pull topspin diagonally, and to you nothing breaks in against it.
Some want to get the title / Some want to provoke their own fate / All we want is the table tennis world championship to come to China for the third time / That we are completely clear!
Simply awesome. You can see a full, very poorly translated version of the whole rap here.
Nice work China, but seriously, if you want the world to respect you, never make another video like this ever again.
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