Bridging the Gap Table Tennis & Basketball
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Bridging the GapTable Tennis
& BasketballBy: TEAM TEBOW TIME
Jake Bajeman, Krysten Call, Justin Halvorson & Yuri Panzhin
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Bridging the Gap or Not?
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Objectives• Brief History:
o Table TennisoBasketball
• About Table Tennis• About Basketball• Comparing the two sports• Question and Answer
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History: Table TennisoWhere did it come from?
o Originated as a sport in Britain in the 1880s
o Was played among upper class as an after dinner game “wiff –waff”
o Now:o Commonly known as Ping Pong in the USo It is controlled by the ITTF which was founded in 1926o Includes 215 member associationso Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h_35S1IhRo
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Table Tennis History cont.
• Became an Olympic sport in 1988• After 2000 Summer Olympics changed size of ball
to 40 mm instead of 38 and went from 21 pt game to 11 pt.
• Now testing 44 mm ball “large-ball”
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History: Basketball• Created by Naismith in 1891• 1909 – first international match in St. Petersburg• June 18 1932 – FIBA formed• 1936 Berlin Olympic games – U.S. won, Canada
runner-up• First World Championships – 1950 Argentina• Video: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io35RCBMQJw&feature=related
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Table Tennis• Who do you think of when you think of table tennis?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=KW_6Lzr47iU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJn5L1nrkL4
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Table Tennis:World Champions
• 1926, London, England (Dec 6 – Dec 12)
• 2011, Rotterdam, Nederland (May 8 – May 15)
• Chinese players won men’s World Championships 60% since 1959
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Olympic Games• Table tennis became Olympic sport in 1988 in the
Olympics (Seoul, South Korea) Men’s Singles:Gold: Yoo Nam Kyu (KOR)Silver: Kim Ki Taek (KOR)Bronze: Erik Lindh (SWE)
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Accessibility of Table Tennis World Wide
• Required equipment: Ball, Table, Racket• Indoor sport• Require facilities
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Competition & Excitement
• Widely played only in several countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan. • Only 2-4 people can participate at the same time• Lack of excitement unless players are high level • Not enough variety
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Skill Set to Play the Game
• Offensive strokes • Defensive strokes • Various spins• Practice and dedication even at the amateur level
Table Tennis Spectacular
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Other Factors• TV Broadcasts• Audience • Popularity• Smaller Scale Tournaments • Clubs
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Bridging the Gap • Table tennis does not bridge the gap• We cannot call it an international sport
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Basketball• Who do you think of when you think of
Basketball?
Michael Jordan
Lebron James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLbSjZ3oViA
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Early American Dominance
• 56 countries have participated in the Summer Olympic games for Men’s basketball.
• Primarily dominated by the Americas but European countries have had success the past 20 years.
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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total1 United States 19 2 3 242 Soviet Union 4 4 4 123 Yugoslavia 1 5 2 84 Argentina 1 0 1 2
5 Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
6 Australia (AUS) 0 3 1 4
7 France 0 2 0 2 Italy 0 2 0 2 Spain 0 2 0 2
10 Brazil 0 1 4 5
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Recent Trends• Fiba (International Basketball Federation)
o Controls Amateur basketball for the world. Have seen an increase in FIBA participation.
• NBA players playing abroado Has been a topic of conversation b/c of the NBA lockout situation.
• 51 European players in NBA currentlyo France is the leader with 11.
• 10.3/19 o Lowest rating for a primetime telecast since 1988 Summer Olympics.o The victory by the "Redeem Team" over Spain is part of late night coverage
and is the only event broadcast live by all affiliates in all time zones.o NBC kicked off the day's coverage with the US Women winning gold in
Basketball.
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1 United States (USA) 6 1 1 8
2 Soviet Union (URS) 2 0 1 3
3 Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
4 Australia (AUS) 0 3 1 4
5
Brazil (BRA) 0 1 1 2
Bulgaria (BUL) 0 1 1 2
China (CHN) 0 1 1 2
Yugoslavia (YUG) 0 1 1 2
9 South Korea (KOR) 0 1 0 1
10 Russia (RUS) 0 0 2 2
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Big Moments in World Basketball
• 1) Yugoslavia was a player in the late 80’s and early 90’s until the Balkan war. (Vlade Divac, Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoc)
• 2) USSR upsets USA in 1972 (controversy)
• 3) Better Foreign play led to the USA using professional athletes…(Dream Team)
• 4) 2004 Olympics (5 continents medal)
o Men’s• Gold-Argentina• Silver-Italy• Bronze- USA
o Women’s• Gold-USA• Silver-Australia• Bronze-Russia
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Worldwide Participation
• As of March 9, 2006, the NBA featured 82 international players from 38 countries and territories on official rosters (active and inactive) for the 2005-06 NBA season.
• • Hakeem ‘The Dream” Olajuwon, Nigeria• Dirk Nowitzki, Germany• Patrick Ewing, Jamaica• Pau Gasol, Spain• Steve Nash, Canada• Dominique Wilkins, “The Human Highlight Film,” France• Dikembe Mutombo, Democratic Republic of Congo• Yao Ming, China• Tony Parker, Belgium• Manu Ginobili, Argentina
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Money Makes the World Go Round
• What are the NBA Players Making?o 1)Deron Williams – $10.3 million per season NBA salary
equivalento 2) Mehmet Okur – $10 milliono 3)(tie). Nenad Krstic – $8.9 million & Rudy Fernandez –
$8.9 milliono 5) Ersan Ilyasova – $8.1 milliono 6) Juan Carlos Navarro – $7.5 milliono 7) Vassilis Spanoulis – $7.2 milliono 8) Dimitris Diamantidis – $6.1 milliono 9) (tie). Mike Batiste – $5.8 million & Milos Teodosic –
$5.8 million
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Expert Opinions• Basketball taking over the world?
“…if you look around the world and get the statistics of what's the most popular sport in the age group 14-18, it's basketball across all genders."
11% of the world plays basketball. Basketball has even replaced football as the most popular sport in areas like Asia and Australia and is on the way to surpassing football worldwide
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Most Played Sport• Number of 14-17 year olds who had played each
of the major sports:• Basketball 9,182,000• Football 7,184,000• Volleyball 5,558,000• Soccer 5,498,000• Baseball 5,464,000• Softball 3,970,000• Hockey 2,477,000
Where football may be the most popular sport…basketball is the most played sport.
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COMPARISONTABLE TENNIS BASKETBALL
PARTICIPATION IN SPORTSPORT REVENUE
WORLD RECOGNITIONEVENT ATTENDANCEPLAYER RECOGNITION
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Questions?
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