No, You Can't Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player
Briefly

Moments later, the four table tennis players found themselves engaged in a brief but spirited debate with Curry and his teammate Anthony Edwards about whether Edwards, one of basketball's brightest young talents, could notch a point against them on the table... On one hand, the table tennis players said, it was one of those extraordinary, and extraordinarily funny, interactions that can happen only at the Olympics.
Everywhere they go, the world's best table tennis players meet strangers who believe they can hold their own against them. They tell them that they play Ping-Pong, too. They wonder aloud what the score would be, or even who would win. They suggest that they should play sometime... You'll meet someone, and their first reaction is, 'I bet I can beat you, let's play,' Zhang said, laughing.
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