Table Tennis
Olympic sport
since 1988
Table Tennis is the 2nd newest sport added into the summer Olympics. The name of this game can be called Table Tennis, Gossima. Whiff-Whaff. Flim-Flam and Ping-Pong. Today people play the sport for money using rackets and a ball over a net. Sometimes the ball goes so fast to reach 160 km/ph. It is the sport attended to having 40 million competitors. When it was first in the Olympics the rackets were cigar boxes and a carved champagne cork for the ball. The rackets today have glue on them and even some of the types of glues used on rackets are banned because it makes the ball go up to 30 km/ph. or faster.
