doris asked to go watch the table tennis women's team finals tonight.since i was out watching 12 lotus with the guys, i dragged them along to robertson walk for the match against table tennis powerhouse, china.
as much as i had wanted singapore to win, i knew it was an uphill task since the chinese team had the home ground advantage, not to mention the crowd fervent support. even president hu jintao was present tonight at the match!
the pressure was on the chinese team as they were expected to win. wang nan and zhang yining were jittery at first conceding their first games to feng tianwei and li jiawei respectively before finding their footing and outplaying the singapore team.
the doubles of zhang yining and guo yue [world no. 1 & 2 respectively] beat li jiawei and wang yuegu in 3 straight games, resulting in china winning the gold with 3-0 score.
after a 48-year wait or lapse, depending on how you look at it, we got another silver olympic medal. finally.
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