"Olympic champions Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng stunned Chinese table tennis fans by announcing that they were withdrawing from the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings on Friday, barely five months after winning Olympic gold. (...)

“Recently, WTT [World Table Tennis] issued a new rule that fines will be imposed if you do not participate. I am really not willing to accept it, but I still respect the international organisations, so I can only choose to withdraw from the world rankings.” (...)

Chen’s post on Weibo also stressed the strain of competing at the Paris Olympics.

“The new regulations on withdrawal penalties recently issued by WTT, because my body is currently unable to bear every high-intensity event, out of respect for the international organisations, I signed the document on Monday and finally made the choice to withdraw from the world ranking,” she wrote.

The WTT 2025 handbook, published on December 20, stated that players who miss the WTT Grand Smash, WTT Champions and WTT Finals would be fined, the amount of which depends on the athletes ranking."

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"ITTF is set to make history this October and November 2024 with the launch of the first-ever ITTF World Esports Table Tennis Championships. Building on the success of Esports Table Tennis as an exhibition sport at the 2023 Olympic Esports Week in Singapore, the ITTF has once again partnered with For Fun Labs, Inc. and their renowned VR game, Eleven Table Tennis, to take Esports Table Tennis to the next level."

I have no idea, question for the experts: is it normal in esports that the legs are missing?

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"As living proof of passing on a legacy, when Will Bayley returned from the Tokyo Paralympics with a silver medal around his neck, Bly Twomey played a match against him in Brighton and her future path was set. Now 14, Twomey heads to the Paris Paralympics ranked fourth in the world, hoping to upset players twice her age."