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Sharpel Elia's Olympic Pursuit

Sharpel Elia's Olympic Pursuit

The serve that cost Sharpel Elia precious points at the Games of the Small States of Europe revealed everything about the distance between national dominance and Olympic qualification. In that moment, the 19-year-old Cypriot discovered the brutal mathematics of international table tennis.
JP Ahonen 17 Sep 2025

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