Jun Mizutani made Japanese table tennis history Thursday, winning the country’s first Olympic singles medal, a bronze, when he beat Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus 4-1 in Rio. The gold medal match was a display of table tennis mastery when defending gold medalist Zhang Jike was completely dominated, and demoralized, by reigning world champion Ma Long. […]
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