The summer Olympics have arrived, and you know what that means—table tennis at the absolute highest level! Whether you're an enjoyer of Forrest Gump, Balls of Fury, or merely grew up with an easily accessible ping-pong table there are myriad reasons to get excited to watch table tennis at the Paris Games.
Of course, the rules are a little different for the Olympics than in Grandpa's garage playing a family tournament at Thanksgiving. The basics are familiar, insofar as the objective of the game is to defeat the opponent by earning points in a manner quite like tennis. But the particulars are where Olympic table tennis diverges from the games that take place in Bryant Park.
