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Diving -- unless you count the climb up the ladder -- doesn't involve much sweating. Table tennis, however, is a pretty wild game when played at that level (or with shot glasses in the corners, for that matter).
The problem I had with table tennis in the Olympics had to do with the fact that tennis (as in "the original tennis...not the table-sized knockoff") wasn't an Olympic event. It was like holding the biathlon with water pistols and not having the real deal. Or having a tobaggon, but not a bobsled. Or awarding medals for playing that game where you flick the triangular paper object through your opponents' index-finger goal...but not having real American football as a medal event.
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