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Flying economy it looks like.

Well, I didn't reveal much in the way of facts not already in evidence. 1. We know that the players Webo accounts were shut down with an official announcement that it was "in accord with regulations". 2. We know China controls their internet as much as they can (try to log into Wikipedia...

Regarding cho-ing and such, in Brad Gilbert's book Winning Ugly he describes all the psychological tricks Connors used to use to get inside the heads of his opponents, and the strategies he used to try to prevent it. He has long passages about this kind of thing. Connors was basically a cho-er...

Why did politics enter? Somebody thought it was a good idea to make LGL quietly disappear. Hard to know the truth about why from the outside. And then Ma Long and FZD felt like they needed to take a stand about the reorganization of table tennis. They had to know that they would raise a huge...

You seem upset at what I wrote, so let me clarify a few things. First, my wife is Chinese. Second, we own property in China, which we bought after we got married, the idea being to divide our time between there and the US after we retire, which is still our plan, and hopefully it works ou --...

F U Weikert! Keep out of this.

Thanks Rain. Very interesting. I am glad I am far off. Sadly, my numbers would be close to accurate if something analagous happened here in the US right now.

That is what I am interested to know, so thanks guys. It will be well known in China that the players' Webo accounts were closed with an official message, and then 15 hours later they all post the same "apology" obviously written today by some ideology officer. My prediction would be about...

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Yes, the general netizens reactions will be interesting. Thanks for reporting all this.

The same letter each time??? Will that make things better or worse? In the US it would fan the flames higher. Nobody would accept it as sincere. In China? Any predictions? My wife predicts this kabuki theatee will get players off the hook publicly but they will be punished financially and...

Some people are Borg or Lendl. Some people are Connors. Some people are McEnroe. Same in TT. There are no quantitative data on this that I know of and some coaches at times have believed things thst ended up being wrong.

It reads better with the grammatical errors. Gives a better sense.

I for one don't think the outcomes of those matches were related to how loud the players celebrated or whether or not the cho-ed. Just my two cents. An opinion is like a rectum. Everybody has one. I don't think cho-ing every player. It might help some.

So, when do Timo and Dima play? Those guys always play pretty entertaining matches against each other. Even if, in the current case, the circumstances are quite strange.

That is the classic next step in China, isn't it? My colleague in the next door office -- a chemist from Peking University -- spent a couple of years picking rice and writing self-criticism letters before she eventually managed to leave China.

And like John Carlos and Tommie Smith, he has been trashed pretty thoroughly. History has been kind to Smith and Carlos though.

Or, alternatively, an apology letter was posted on his Weibo. Subtle difference.

Yes it does. NFL players in the future will be very hesitant to speak out on things they feel are unjust if they think it will cost them their livelihood. And it probably will.

Because if choing is not part of your routine it may well break your concentration rather than to enhance it. Because it takes energy. Because if you do not depend on adrenaline or certain kinds of emotional intensity to drive your game (and different people are wired up differently, that is...