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Truls Möregårdh is one of the biggest Olympic heroes from Paris.
He has managed to create ping-pong fever throughout our country after the great success.
Now the 22-year-old also reveals the answer to the question that divides all of Sweden.
No Swede has missed the enormous success and uproar that Truls Möregårdh have created in recent weeks. Sweden has for many years now been a dormant superpower in table tennis.
Swedish Olympic success
After the huge success of the 80s and 90s with icons such as Jan-Ove Waldner, Jorgen Persson and Mikael “The Apple” Appelgren when the Chinese wall was torn down, they have been many difficult years for Swedish table tennis. But something has happened in recent years and during the Summer Olympics in Paris the climax was reached.
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Finally, a Swede managed to reach the Olympic final in table tennis for the first time in 24 years. Möregårdh lined up feat match after feat match and created complete ping pong fever throughout our long country.
Truls now admits
It was enough all the way to Olympic silver in singles and if that wasn’t enough, the men’s team went with Truls and his teammates Christian Karlsson and Anton Källberg all the way to a sensational Olympic final in the team game. For the first time in Swedish table tennis history, they reached this far and salvaged an impressive Olympic silver after losing the final against China.
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Now our blue-and-yellow Olympic heroes are at home on Swedish soil again and Truls Möregårdh has been greatly praised at home in Eslöv. He also gets to answer the big question that divides Sweden into two camps after the great Olympic success: Do you say ping pong or table tennis?
– Ping-pong. I have said table tennis very few times in my life, so there is nothing else but table tennis for me, Truls admits in an interview with Avanzapodden, see it below.
The 22-year-old also answers that he prefers forehand to backhand, as well as singles to doubles matches and at the end, see the video below, he gets a new question where many Swedes say differently. Is it called king or round ping pong?
– I have to say round ping pong anyway. I don’t really have much of a relationship with “King”. But “round ping-pong” is close to my heart, says Möregårdh.
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