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| | Table Tennis Dayton - American Gladiators. |
 | | Two Chinese guys (they're Americans now, just like us, but you know what I mean) won it a combined seven times, and a guy from the former Yugoslavia, this year's number one seed, is the same guy who won it last year. |
 | | At the highest level, the event seems firmly in the death grip of people who are territorial and woefully unhip - like the former president of the USATT, who shows up each day in a different jackass ensemble: an American-flag tracksuit on opening day, zany genie pants the next, an Uncle Same costume after that. |
 | | For the rest of the gladiators, it's a chance to win a couple hundred bucks in whatever bracket they qualified for: the elementary-school championship, the over-80, the wheelchair singles, the standing disabled. |
| www.tabletennisdayton.com /pages/ttinfo/americangladiators.html (4763 words) |
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