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Hi NTClub! I have written a blog post relating to this thread topic..! Might be of interest or use to you?.... and at the end, there is a link under "comments" which others have suggested ways perhaps to push for sending NZ players that are qualified... =)...

Hi Carl Horowitz thanks heaps for the comment and inspiring videos! I have enjoyed reading them and you have asked some thoughtful questions. I don't know other countries who have restrictions like this, but there may be another country... I still love table tennis because its such a...

Thanks for the comments ttmonster, WiWa and azlan. The Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament is on right now and congrats to William Henzell (Aus) and Jian Fan Lay (Aus) who both qualified on the first day. However, if they were representing New Zealand, they wouldn't be going to the...

Thanks for your comment..! Interesting with the boycott idea! I think it is important to realise that every sport is so different, and every sport gets different level of funding as well. In a news article about a badminton player - she got no funding, but still trained and competed self-fund...

Thanks for all your comments! and in the past we had players winning the qualifying tournament and not being sent by New Zealand Olympic Committee. Actually I wonder how they came up with that criteria, since most countries don't have a criteria (the criteria being that you qualify through ITTF...

Yes... this is the suitation now with other sports in New Zealand too such as Tennis and Badminton.....! This is even if they qualified directly through world ranking...

congrats!!!!!!! :)

Hi dici yes it is sad :( Hi Alan, it is more about the fact that even if I was able to win the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament and thus qualify for the Olympics, the New Zealand Olympic Committee (not table tennis New Zealand) has a policy where they would only send athletes if they...

The Olympics is the dream for every athlete, and it has been my dream and goal ever since I made the New Zealand Women's Senior squad. The Olympics is represented by every continent. Oceania is represented by the green Olympic Ring and this means there is a place for players from my region...

Hey guys, here is a news article from a popular China news website, it talks about the match and also has Zhang explaining why he made that mistake of not shaking Ma Long's hand...

nice!!! very nice vid!

omg!! soooo cute!! :D the trainer's pretty good!!! :)

loveee the video !!! very inspiring =)

yes yes its around the net,, and nice shot!

contents from Sarah Her-Lee's Blog I came across three very cool promotional videos featuring Tiago Apolonia (Portugal National Team) and our very own Ola Ratka from New Zealand!! :) (New Zealand Junior Team), and Trent Carter and Paul Pinkewich (Australian Senior and Veteran Teams). Tiago's...

wow i love this!! this is so awesome =) they look so nice thanks for sharing this! cant wait to see the video of Ding Ning's performance!

Hi Der_Echte! Thanks, and I was born in Taiwan so I can speak Mandarin. My family moved to New Zealand when I was 10 years old,,, so thats why I can speak English =) So you play in Korea..?

omg so i go away for 2 days and look what i've been missing!! Dan is there a way of notifying me when someone comments on my post? ... (lol more work for you)　 :P Well i have to say doing that challenge thing, even though it was just in the arcades, was pretty competitive :P (on my side anyway)...

haha ... yes... would you like to predict how the 'challenges' went? :)

I got to meet Dan! - the founder of the popular table tennis forum website - tabletennisdaily.co.uk :) Dan Ives - Founder of Table Tennis Daily and Sarah Her-Lee I'm sure many of you would have either seen a video on youtube made by Dan, or... read about the latest table tennis news on...