Steph Curry has been pumping up the American table tennis team since the Olympics started.
United States’ Steph Curry, centre, Kevin Durant, background left, and Joel Embiid arrive at St Pancras Station with teammates, to take the Eurostar train as they make their way to the Olympic Games in Paris, in London, Wednesday, July 24, 2024.Friday, he got a chance to meet the players.
Lily Zhang, Rachel Sung, Amy Wang and Kanak Jha were in attendance at Team USA’s basketball practice ahead of a Saturday matchup with Puerto Rico. When practice was over, Curry walked over to the table tennis stars with a ping pong ball and asked for the entire team to autograph it. The players seemed stunned but promptly signed the ball for the Warriors legend.Zhang, who grew up in Palo Alto and went to Cal, just completed her fourth Olympics.
In attendance at her Round of 32 victory was NBA star Anthony Edwards, who had previously been talking smack at the Opening Ceremony, when he insisted he’d be able to take one point off any of the table tennis Olympians.this sort of thing happens all the time. While at Cal, she said there’d be “frat guys” constantly challenging her, and once in a while she’d give them the privilege of playing opposite an Olympian.
Sung, from San Jose, will pair up with Wang in women’s doubles. Their first match is against Germany on Tuesday at 1 a.m. PT.
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