China, where millions play table tennis across the country, have never lost the women's singles crown since the sport was introduced at the 1988 Olympics.

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Now, it's not just in table tennis that China wins gold.

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The victory means China has won gold in every table tennis event played at the London Games and in Beijing in 2008, according to the official Games website.

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Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.

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Table tennis was an obvious sport to start with, because it is forty years after an American table tennis team competed in China.

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Wang also won the women's singles title in Sydney, bringing her career tally to three Olympic gold and cementing her status as one of the best players in China's seemingly endless production-line of elite table tennis players.

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One of the most conspicuous is table tennis player Geng Lijuan, the former world number one from China who has for more than a decade represented Canada.

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Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.

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China beat South Korea to take the gold medal in the men's team table tennis final, and the bronze went to Germany.

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He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.

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