Ma Long Hasn't Been Selected For Paris 2024 Olympics

[@cl4626]

I like Ma Long so much ! He really plays well ! Salute to Ma Long ! Ma Long was 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games Gold winners !

[@johnlowe-tq6ey]

It had to come...ma long is the best player of all time.ITs sad but the youth had to take over.

[@sparkxz154]

well we now know they shoulda sent Ma Long. the GOAT would NEVER lose in the round of 32

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

@@sparkxz154 hindsight is a wonderful thing but would have been great to see the GOAT in singles action

[@pansarbobo7477]

I like how you shared your own opinions on table tennis matters. This kind of content is what keeps table tennis interesting and engaging. Sadly there aren't many channels like this. The best two I can think of is emrat and GTT but it's not enough to be honest. KZbin needs more of these channels. Your channel might be small now but I believe it will grow as the niche is pretty interesting. I've subscribed and looking forward to more of you opinions in the coming future.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Thanks, that means a lot!

[@LevelUpCewb]

A lot of people might know rhis, but as far as I am aware, China had a point system for determining who would make olympics by how they performed in international tournaments. Yes Ma long won the world cup, but that wasn't really enough to justify. He didn't really beat any crazy international player to make the finals. Yes he beat Felix Lebrun, but he's not really good at playing chinese players. He beat Togami, but that was expected. In the semifinals and finals he played chinese players and beat them, which doesn't really matter, because with the two person limit per country, it is unlikely he will face any chinese player until very deep in the tournament if he were to participate, so that would be of no use. Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin honestly make much more sense, they've done some great things in tournament and even have been clutch against non chinese players and showed strong mental game. Look at world championships, they were down 2-1 and they still came back to win because of fan zhendong and wang chuqin. With that said for 3rd player for teams I'm not sure whether Ma long will play. Could happen, but there's still a lot of competition. There's Lin Shidong, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Gaoyuan, who are all competing for the 3rd spot. There's also Zhou Qihao, but I think he's 100% not gonna make it, not good enough.

[@bpsychotique]

We have to agree. he has had his best days. The dragon must pass on his ballot

[@user-yg31415]

The limit of 2 players per country should be abolished -- it is unfair to some of the best players from a single country. Otherwise, they need to also put a limit on other sports.

[@tuquansing5606]

They do no wish to see all Chinese players win 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc dominating position to embrace other country players and hurt their self esteem. Therefore we see this wield competition system.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

I wouldn't want to see too many athletes from one nation but maybe if there was a wildcard system to allow a particular player in circumstances like this

[@dongiovanni8899]

Any countries are interested to offer him a slot?

[@dfrees42]

Lin Shidong is the future and Wang Chuqin is the current for team China.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Yep, end of an era. A new era is here

[@OphisRenne]

@@TableTenniswithAsh Chuqin for the triple at Saudi Smash and 2 singles men Smashes in a row. Not really worried about him getting gold at Olympics and on a 95% winrate atm. I just miss the Chinese penholders legends lol.

[@nirmalaarangalage3735]

So sad

[@nadav.sh85]

NICE VIDEO

[@PullSluggman]

Wang chuqin has the strength to be the new ma long since ma long is his idol

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

He really could be! Poor FZD, he may never get Olympic singles gold

[@zottffss]

I honestly feel the 2 players per country rule needs to be reverted.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

I would like to see some flexibility in it to allow defending Olympic, world champion or world cup holders to qualify in addition to two players

[@ricardomaiacoelho4831]

Uma vergonha o dragâo não ser convocado par as olimpíadas... Ele escreveu a sua história e precisa desta olimpíada para termina -lá..

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Yes, he needs to finish his story! The Olympics would have been the perfect place

[@shubhankjoshi7175]

Ma long has now been confirmed as the third player right?

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

He has! We will at least get to see him in Paris

[@starking1187]

Ma Long not making the team is completely fair and square. He has never won any WTT singles titles since the establishment of WTT more than 3 years ago. In fact, he didn't even reach that many WTT finals let alone win titles. Losing a lot to so many foreigners like Lee Sangsu, Franziska, Lin Yunju and most recently Jang Woojin. He even lost to teammates like Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun. Yes he did play well in the World Cup but that is too late as he past average WTT performance resulted in a huge point gap diffference between him and the top two Chinese players making him unable to qualify for Olympics even with his impressive World Cup win.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

It is totally fair but it would be nice to see a great champion have the opportunity to defend the crown 👑

[@bnobplayz4837]

hes world no 3

[@geraldcarino5009]

And FZD did not lose to any foreigner?

[@starking1187]

@@geraldcarino5009 hH did. Even WCQ did but at least FZD got a couple of WTT singles tournaments under his belt. Ma Long at the moment is still at 0. Winning the world cup was too late for him as his ranking points severely lack behind FZD that's why he didn't qualify not just because of losing to foreigners.

[@ansman5062]

I think ma long won 2020 wtt Macao singles. But agreed, he didn’t make the cut for Paris. Glad that China didn’t play favorites and made their decision based on merit

[@olissime01]

WCQ is indisputable, FZD is not. I think ML would have deserved to play the single at the OG, even though he has lost to some non chinese lately.

[@KaxMisha]

Don't blame the selection, blame the ridiculous and borderline racist "two players per country" rule!

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Yeah, absolutely. No fault on the part of the Chinese selectors

[@KaxMisha]

@@TableTenniswithAsh This has been an ongoing issue for as long as I have been following the sport since the mid nineties. The higher-ups want to prevent China winning in all sorts of ways other than the rest of the world actually getting better. This was already a travesty when the limit was three players, with dominant world number one (and my favorite player of all time) Wang Liqin not playing in the 2000 Olympics despite being the world number one. Instead of fixing this, they go the other way and DECREASE the limit from three to two so that China cannot get all the medals. Xu Xin never got to play singles at the Olympics. Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun never will either. The two-time defending champion is missing out this year. Meanwhile, you have relatively worthless players from countries that suck at table tennis who are like five-time Olympians and can play every time. In terms of level, the Olympics are far inferior to any decent WTT event (though at least they have not adopted the ridiculous best of five format for the earlier rounds - WTT is also a joke, but for different reasons), which is insane.

[@sten2246]

Spectators have long been getting sick of the same old China dominance in table tennis. The ITTF recognized this quite a while back and hence they changed the Olympic selection criteria to make it more interesting for ALL participating countries. I would like to see the Olympic committee make further changes by only allowing one player from each country and one team in doubles or mixed doubles. What about countries that have a lot smaller population with some of those only having one decent player. As a lifelong follower of table tennis I feel now is the time to make new and exciting changes for the betterment and the future. Won't even bother watching the Olympics, we already know the outcome and because of this aspect who really cares if China wins again it's all too boring.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Some interesting thoughts. The extreme levels of Chinese dominance definitely does make it less interesting

[@blkoay]

Hmm, China picked the best 2. Nothing sad about the selection.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Ma Long is an all time great of the sport, that's got to mean something right? Sentimentality and how we feel about the players matters from a fans perspective. Selectors have a different priority,. which is understandable

[@blkoay]

@@TableTenniswithAsh But not all feel the same ya.

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

Absolutely. That's why people love to talk about sports

[@dongiovanni8899]

Is it possible for him to join Hong Kong or Macao team?

[@michaelshaw2786]

Young Elon Musk?

[@TableTenniswithAsh]

If only I was as rich 😔