The first U.S. table tennis delegation arrived in China in April 1971 for the icebreaking visit that helped boost the launch ...

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An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First ...

In April 1971, an American taking part in the World Table Tennis Championship in Nagoya, Japan, missed his bus after practice. Glenn Cowan boarded the Chinese team’s bus instead, and Zhuang Zedong ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of what turned out to be one of the most exciting and historically meaningful series of events of my early career. At 28, in 1971 I was a junior member of Henry ...

Over the past decade a mounting wave of celebrity Asian athletes has arrived on Western shores. Big names in basketball like Yao Ming and baseball’s Ichiro Suzuki come to mind. Most recently, Li Na ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The best table tennis players in the world descended upon Japan in ...

The U.S. and Chinese national table tennis teams held a joint practice Monday night at the George R. Brown Convention Center in honor of the 50th anniversary of 1971’s ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’ brokered ...