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.

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

Any countries are interested to offer him a slot?

I have to disagree. The Olympics are a political structure based on countries competing and eyeballs WATCHING. It's not a pure world competition, though it tries hard to achieve that ideal. Also, certain sports are dominated by certain regions of the world and are single player sports. If you allowed badmiton to be ranked by the top players in the world, Malaysia and Indonesian athletes would absolutely dominate. Or even in group sports, like soccer, forget Australia, Asia, and Africa as a continent. Yes, Japan, and South Korea have talent, and Australia might be able to put a team together, Cameroon, Nigeria, respect.... but you might as well call it the Trans-Atlantic Cup between South America and Europe. Put the 3 best teams from Brazil against the 3 Best Teams from Germany and you have a serious competition worthy of the world watching. (But must of the world would not WANT to watch that competition). Anyways, my point is, it's cool to have every country represented, and give a reason for people to WATCH the Olympics and look forward to the Underdog having a chance from every part of the world. And as far as Chinese table tennis goes, they still have the best players on the planet by signficant leeps of ability (thought the world is catching pretty quickly). Tons of respect and glory in winnig 1st and 2nd every time, but it's nice to see who squeeze in at 3rd. (I say It's Hugo or Felix's year for a bronze medal).

Thanks, that means a lot!

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

@@TableTennisOpinionswithAsh 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.

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

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

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

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

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

hes world no 3

And FZD did not lose to any foreigner?

@@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.

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

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

@@TableTennisOpinionswithAsh But not all feel the same ya.

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

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

@@TableTennisOpinionswithAsh 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.

If only I was as rich 😔