Are French people paying attention to the French team at WTTTC 2024?

[d3nium]

depending on the sport
some sports you get punished, some you won't.

Try throwing the basketball into the crowd in anger/vain
or the same with soccer/football.
He will learn very fast.

in Table Tennis, ZJK had zero punishment for breaking things from ITTF.
CTTA internal punishment is internet, but there was nothing from the world body.
So in TT, you need to watch out for racket thickness more than your emotions lol

I wonder if anything happened to Mengel after he launched his bat and booted the towel bin?

 

[zeio]

in Table Tennis, ZJK had zero punishment for breaking things from ITTF.
CTTA internal punishment is internet, but there was nothing from the world body.
So in TT, you need to watch out for racket thickness more than your emotions lol

Ahem, how does being stripped of the prize money sound? US$45,000.

https://www.ettu.org/en/n/news/archive/2014/zhang-jike--8217-s-prize-money-goes-to-fair-play-award/
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/zhang-jike-fined-45-000-euros.8983/
http://www.mhtabletennis.com/2014/10/ittf-fine-on-zhang-jike-no-less-than.html

 

[dingyibvs]

he didn't get thickness problem, so its fine

Thickness matters in fairness of competition though, which I think you're pretty interested in, but emotional outbursts outside of competition doesn't. Those who toss their rackets should've been punished for endangering others though.

I personally am OK with players showing emotions. I don't do it myself, I think it can negatively affect play, but to each his own.

 

[TheProfessor]

Table tennis is quite big here, I live in a rural area and there are at least 20 clubs in a 1,5 hour radius of which 6 play national and 2 professional.

But yeah, I think its popularity for the media is “hurt” by the Chinese supremacy there is almost no surprise in our sport.

On TV In France it comes in after Football, Rugby, Tennis, Biathlon, cycling, athleticism, skiing etc.

Wow that is a lot. 20 clubs??? dang

 

[riemsesy]

Table tennis is quite big here, I live in a rural area and there are at least 20 clubs in a 1,5 hour radius of which 6 play national and 2 professional.

But yeah, I think its popularity for the media is “hurt” by the Chinese supremacy there is almost no surprise in our sport.

On TV In France it comes in after Football, Rugby, Tennis, Biathlon, cycling, athleticism, skiing etc.

1,5 hours radius in The Netherlands is our whole country ;-)

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Ahem, how does being stripped of the prize money sound? US$45,000.

https://www.ettu.org/en/n/news/archive/2014/zhang-jike--8217-s-prize-money-goes-to-fair-play-award/
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/zhang-jike-fined-45-000-euros.8983/
http://www.mhtabletennis.com/2014/10/ittf-fine-on-zhang-jike-no-less-than.html

all these racket flying all over the playing areas nowadays
so is this the only punishment given?
technically, it is just stripping of prize money
if the same player had no prize money, what is there to be stripped of then?

 

[Yuomay]

1,5 hours radius in The Netherlands is our whole country ;-)

Yes but I live in France

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I wonder if anything happened to Mengel after he launched his bat and booted the towel bin?

he isn't ZJK's level to be in the news of "prize's striped".
or maybe there wasn't any prize money?

 

[riemsesy]

Yes but I live in France

200 years ago we were French too mon ami

 

[DaveNewbie]

Wow that is a lot. 20 clubs??? dang

In Europe this is not extraordinary. Where I live (a small town 35km from Barcelona) there are probably more than 60-70 clubs within a 1,5h radius. Most are small TT clubs, but many play national leagues and four of them even in the Spanish Superleague, with top players like Yaroslav Zhmudenko or Yeh Chih-wei.

 

[riemsesy]

At our club we see a steady growth of new players.

 

[Metaxa]

1,5 hours radius in The Netherlands is our whole country ;-)

😂Lol, in Belgium we are then also halfway to the Netherlands, ahead of ⅓ in France, ahead of ⅓ in Germany and all the clubs in Luxembourg. I don't know how many there are in total but I do know that there are 165 clubs in Belgium alone that you can reach within a 1.5-hour drive.🤣

 

[dingyibvs]

That's interesting. So most of the interest is about the Lebruns but apparently people (the media?) are not as interested about the sport they play? It's a shame - they did so well to get to the final. If one of them gets a medal at the Paris Olympics maybe things will change.

Not that uncommon really. Here in the US everyone knows who Beckham is but nobody's interested in soccer lol.

 

[anjoooo]

Not that uncommon really. Here in the US everyone knows who Beckham is but nobody's interested in soccer lol.

What do you think it is about the Lebrun's that mean that they get more media exposure in France than the sport they play? Honest question, I'm not trying to argue