Published 3 months ago

‘I made it’: 38 years after calling time on her Olympic dream in China, this ‘table tennis grandma’ will represent Chile at Paris 2024

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By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Zhiying Zeng’s eyes begin to sparkle and her gestures become more animated as she recounts the day her lifelong Olympic dream came true. She had to wait longer than most athletes, too: At 58 years old, Zeng will be one of the oldest Olympians at Paris 2024. But for Zeng, whose Olympic journey began in China in the 1970s and culminated in qualification for Chile’s table tennis team earlier this year, it was worth the w…

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