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The sport is widely practised throughout the world. Table tennis made its Olympic debut as a full medal sport during the Olympic Games in Seoul. It was never contested at the Olympics as a demonstration sport. Since the late 1950s, the Chinese have been by far the dominant country in table tennis.
Whatever name it assumes, table tennis has come a long way since its introduction as a genteel, after-dinner alternative to lawn tennis in 1890s England. Today, players compete for big money, wield high-tech rackets and volley the ball at speeds up to 160 kilometres per hour. Table tennis has become the world's largest participation sport, with 40 million competitive players worldwide and countless millions playing recreationally.
There are four table tennis events on the Olympics programme: singles and doubles for men and women. The mixed doubles event is not held at the Olympics, but it has been an event at the World Championships since 1926.
The game, which debuted in the Olympic Games in 1988 at Seoul, began with cigar-box lids for rackets and a carved champagne cork for a ball. Today, players use specially developed rubber-coated wooden and carbon-fibre rackets and a lightweight, hollow celluloid ball. Various rubber compounds and glues are applied on the rackets to impart greater spin or speed.
Indeed, some glues are banned from Olympic competition - they make the ball travel up to 30km/h faster.
佳句必备：
1、The sport is widely popular throughout the world.
这项运动在全世界流行。
2、Whatever name it assumes, table tennis has come a long way ...
无论什么时候提及它的名字，总是有很多话要说......
3、Table tennis has become the world's largest participation sport.
乒乓球已经成为世界参与人数最多的球类。
文化链接：
它的英语官方名称是“table tennis”，意即“桌上网球”。乒乓球一名起源自1900年，因其打击时发出“Ping Pong”的声音而得名，在中国就以“乒乓球”作为它的官方名称，香港及澳门等地区亦同时使用。然而，台湾和日本则称为桌球，意指球桌上的球类运动。
1988年，乒乓球第一次作为正式项目出现在第24届奥运会的赛场上。至今，在奥运会的赛场上已经连续进行了5届奥运会的乒乓球比赛。奥运会乒乓球赛每隔4年举行一次，原设有4个比赛项目：男子单打、女子单打、男子双打、女子双打。
乒乓球，中华人民共和国国球。是一种世界流行的球类体育项目。乒乓球是中国的国球，也被称作“桌上网球”中国在乒乓球历史上占有很高的地位，20世纪60年代以来，中国选手取得世界乒乓球比赛的大部分冠军，甚至多次包揽整个赛事的所有冠军。
大满贯
乒乓球运动的“大满贯”是指获得奥林匹克运动会单打冠军、世界锦标赛单打冠军、世界杯单打冠军。
现在，国际乒坛上一共有6位大满贯运动员：
外国： 瓦尔德内尔（瑞典）
中国： 邓亚萍 刘国梁 孔令辉 王 楠 张怡宁 （小编的私心哦，这几位都是偶像啊！） |
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发表于 2016-7-10 16:05:24