Via The Diplomat, a look at how a focus on niche sports paid off for Jakarta at the 2024 Olympics as part of its overall athletic diplomacy strategy: “A golden day for Indonesian sports,” exulted The Jakarta [...]

The Guardian has a lovely evocation of an Olympic table-tennis match between athletes from China and Taiwan in the early days of the Paris Games. The article captures the excitement of the competition, featuring a player known as [...]

Via NPR, an article on how, after competing in table tennis at the Paris Olympics, athletes from North Korea and South Korea chatted and smiled as they posed for a selfie together: Lim Jong-hoon of South Korea [...]