Chilean Table tennis star, Zeng Zhiying in ‘cloud 9’, as she said that her dream came true on Saturday after making her Olympic debut aged 58, despite her loss to Mariana Sahakian of Lebanon, www.totorinews.com reports.
Zhiying lost 4-1 in the preliminary round of Paris 2024 table tennis game to Sahakian, who is equally advanced in age at 46 years.
Zeng represented China, the country of her birth, as a young player but retired at 20 and moved to Chile, where she has lived for the past 35 years.
The table tennis arena was a full house and with additional support from a small vibrant group of Chilean fans, Zeng said the experience had been very fulfilling.
“After 30 years I came back to table tennis, and now that I have been able to play at the Olympics, my dream came true,” Zeng said, in comments translated from Spanish, which she speaks with a Chilean accent.
“I gave my best in every competition and that’s how I managed to get here.”
Zeng was born in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and began playing from an early age under the tutelage of her table tennis coach mother.
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