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larrytt 
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I blogged this morning about the problems with the ITTF Hall of Fame. Maybe later I'll go through the women - it's equally silly that even two-time Women's Singles Champion Ruth Aarons isn't inducted!!!
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berndt_mann
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The ITTF has a gonzo sense of humor. Randy Daytona, according to the Wikipedia ITTF Hall of Fame list of inductees, was the first person inducted, in 1993. He played a table tennis player in the movie "Balls of Fury". Or more likely it was Dan Holden, who set out the ITTF list of inductees for Wikipedia. "Balls of Fury" came out in 2007.
Jimmy McClure was inducted as an officer, whatever that means, again according to Dan Holden's list, running from 1993 to 2013. Edited by berndt_mann - 08/04/2017 at 4:45pm |
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Baal
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Posted: 08/04/2017 at 11:57pm |
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We had a thread on that here a couple of years ago and we all agreed that it is absurd and part of the problem is that there is a minimum number of world championships required but they seem to weight team championships as heavily as individual championships.
Edit added: It was actually at OOAK forum in 2014. Sometimes being on three forums confuses me. But in any case, we all agreed with what Larry wrote back in 2014, so I am glad he is bringing it up again. At the time players like Chen Qi were in, and Stellan Bengtsson and Kjell Johansson were not! In fact, this is what I wrote then:------------------ Yes [that Peter Karlsson was in], but no Appelgren, Bengtsson, Alser or Johansson?
Chen Qi but not Schlager? Where is Seiji Ohno? Where is Ruth Aaronson? Klampar? Joyner? This is too absurd to have any validity. It is obvious that ITTF cannot get anything right. |
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larrytt
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Posted: 08/05/2017 at 12:03am |
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I believe this is that thread. -Larry
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Baal
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Posted: 08/05/2017 at 12:07am |
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holy crap, and what is really embarrassing is that not only is THIS the thread (well one of them anyway), but I started it!  We never did follow through on the idea of creating our own Hall of Fame though. Reading through this thread again just reminds me that the ITTF is not made up of deep analytical thinkers.
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