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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nayara Batschke

Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games

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Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania.

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