The history of ping pong (2)

The history of ping pong (2)

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The London agents who first sold the game in England now called it “ping pong”. “Ping” was meant to be the sound of the bat hitting the table.
The game was played everywhere but not everyone liked it, wholesale replica designer handbags. Some thought it was a silly game. The famous English humorous magazine punch had these lines: I know I must be wrong, but I cannot love ping pong.
I cannot sing in praise of ping. I have no song for pong.
Many people, however, began to play the game seriously. Its officials name was changed to table tennis, because the name ping pong belonged to the London agents who first sold the equipment. In 1926 the international table tennis federation was set up, wholesale designer handbags. That same year a European championship was played in London. The winning country was hungry where today the game is played almost as much as in china. The Chinese are today the greatest players. In the international championship of 1971 Hungary won the men’s singles and the men’s singles and the men’s doubles and Japan’s women’s team was successful, but all the other events were won by china. In 1972 it became a game of friendship when china sent teams to America and America sent teams to china to play friendly games, wholesale coach handbags.

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