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It was first proposed in late 2015 by Richard Scruton, Technical Delegate for Rio 2016(Sports Manager for London 2012) and discussed in multiple Olympic and Paralympic commission meetings.

For future reference. https://documents.ittf.sport/system/files?file=2018-09/20180502_OPC_Halmstad_minutes.pdf https://documents.ittf.sport/system/files?file=2018-09/20171215_OPC_minutes.pdf https://documents.ittf.sport/system/files?file=documents/20170601_OPC_Dusseldorf_minutes.pdf...

No, Japan is the XYZ team. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?17054-Breaking-News!-New-Team-Format-for-Tokyo-2020&p=220694&viewfull=1#post220694

9 back-to-back losses against foreign players for Niwa. Will this be his 10? Ray: Anyone other than cheating-tani is not reliable.

Harimoto is avoiding BH rallies. Not good. 3:7, 11:9 in the 4th. G5, 1:3, 5:3, TO for Pitchford, 5:5, 6:5, 6:6, 6:7, 7:7, 8:7, 8:8, 8:11.

Harimoto will face Pitchford. Revenge or another spanking?

From the selections for Rio, Murakami explicitly told the media that the 3rd spot would be decided by world ranking. For the men's team, it would be decided by development headquarter, and in the end they went by world ranking. 5 Mizutani 12 Niwa 18 M. Yoshimura 22 Oshima 5 Ishikawa 6...

On 2nd thought, I started one. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj_L155vUlT9r3u1hKE-hMw/community?lb=UgyHiX2H09GaauEYE3B4AaABCQ

I plan to start one when the dust settles for the 2nd spot.

I knew I heard Vanuatu somewhere before...

"Do not lose to your weak self" - Hina Hayata

Press conference - Japanese and Chinese but no English.

Poor draws for Japan, both men and women.

Blame this dude for the 40+ mess. Spank this dude for pushing the 40mm. Anyway. Strictly speaking, there are only 3-star balls for international competitions. The 1-star and 2-star are designations by the manufacturers for balls that don't meet the specs for 3-star. There are ONLY 5...

There's an age-old tactic called "調正壓反" in Chinese that involves moving the opponent to the wide FH and then putting pressure on the BH to force a weak return. Effective even on those with RPB since penholders tend to stand more to the BH side. Look up Oh Sang Eun and Kenta Matsudaira against...

Hirano was the reserve player for Rio, when she was 4th JNT player on the world ranking list 9/2015. Hayata might get that treatment this time around.

Took a quick look. China didn't send anyone until the Thailand Open in May, in which LSW took part. Other than that, China sent only players from provincial teams. Shibata won like 4 times beating Hashimoto, Sato, Samara and Mikhailova in the finals. Kato won 1 time beating Mori. Hashimoto...

More TWC promo with a new analysis of the team lineups by Sayaka Hirano.

Hayata will lose a substantial amount of points in the first half of next year(2x 1100 in Feb and Mar, then 850 in May). Given all this, I feel that the JNT will pick Hirano/Ishikawa over Hayata for safety on 2020/1/6.