Here's what you need to know about table tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did table tennis become an Olympic sport? Debuting in 1988 when Seoul successfully bid for the Summer Games, table ...

The summer Olympics have arrived, and you know what that means—table tennis at the absolute highest level! Whether you're an enjoyer of Forrest Gump, Balls of Fury, or merely grew up with an easily ...

Ping pong is headed to Paris. The 2024 Olympics will feature table tennis events in the French capital. The sport has been included at the Summer Games since 1988, and everyone will be looking to ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. PARIS — It was the kind of encounter that can only happen at the Olympics: An NBA star ...

An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point. Amy Wang of United States during a match on Monday.Credit... Supported by ...

Jackson Wieger is betting on table tennis matches. Yes, pingpong. It's happening halfway around the world in Russia. It's possibly fixed. Wieger can't watch the matches he bets on unless he finds a ...

A wealthy Qatari businessman’s campaign to lead the sport’s global body is being investigated. One of his critics was detained and interrogated in Doha. By Hannah Beech In a near-empty venue in a near ...

Even if you think you’re pretty good at table tennis, chances are you will get dusted by any of the players who spend their Saturday mornings battling across the tables in a Korean church basement in ...

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tennis, ...

On Wednesday, researchers at Google DeepMind revealed the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The system combines an industrial robot arm ...