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Ping pong champ finally allowed to date

BEIJING - As the reigning table tennis world champion with two Olympic silver medals under his belt, China's Wang Hao almost had it all - except a girlfriend. ...full story at CNews

from CNews on Wed, Sep 02 2009

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