Though the athlete, affectionately dubbed the “table tennis Grandma,” lost in the preliminary round on Saturday, bringing her Olympic journey to a close, she says still looking up.
“I don’t feel very sad, because this is sport,” Zeng told Reuters.
I feel so content.”Zeng, the oldest person to debut in Olympic table tennis, lost to 46-year-oldMariana Sahakian of Lebanon 4-1.
At 58 years of age, Chinese-Chilean table tennis player Zhiying Zeng made her debut at the Paris Olympic Games as one of the longest-lived athletes.
However, before the sport made its Olympic debut in 1988, table tennis introduced a paddle-related rule change.
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