"On Monday, Luxembourg’s Ni Xia Lian, who was born on 4 July 1963, became the oldest competitor in the history of the Olympics to win a table tennis match when she beat the 31-year-old Turkish player Sibel Altinkaya. On Wednesday, she became the oldest player in the history of the Olympics to lose one, too, when she was beaten by the Chinese world and Olympic silver medallist Sun Yingsha. Sun, 23, who is the world No 1 and won team gold in Tokyo, isn’t just 38 years younger than Ni, she’s nine years younger than her son, too."
www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/31/auntie-ni-xia-lian-61-bows-out-olympics-table-tennis
Good Morning Tuesday 28th July 2926
