The young British table tennis player, roared on by an army of fans, fell short of the final but has much to be proud about
Table tennis is the game of the youth club and of the hostel, the campsite and the school gym, the park and the prison. It is also played by elite athletes with rubber wrists and quicksilver reflexes, like 14-year-old British schoolgirl Bly Twomey. (Though, it turns out, elite athletes or not, they still have to crawl under the table to pick up errant balls.)
Twomey, the fourth seed, already had a bronze medal, alongside Fliss Pickard in the WD14 doubles earlier in the week, when she walked out for her WS7 singles semi-final against the seventh seed, Turkish player Kubra Korkut.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/05/bly-twomey-bronze-paris-paralympics-table-tennis
Author : Tanya Aldred at the South Paris Arena
Publish date : 2024-09-05 14:15:49
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