The forth april is a day that we all remeber
as the day that Sweden beated China with 5-0 Glenn Östh: We can beat if we all play 100 procent. Waldner: All of us had the perfect hit and movements, i
have never seen both Jörgen and Mikael that good. Appelgren: I felt happines and game desire. My fantasy was free. We knew everyting. Persson: The crowd is with and you feel the flow. You do
the unexpected.
The arena were full, that was kind of awesome. Appelgren: Yeah. Bo Persson: We knew that the chinese was the
best and have always been the best. Grubba was a top player in europe, he did't even fight against
the chinese because he thought that you can't beat theese guys. Glenn Östh: John F Kennedy had a spech in the start of the 60's that mankind was going to land on the
moon before the 60's end. If we would have said that 1989 we would beat China in a team competition so... Woman: Table tennis is Chinas national sport. They have
dominated it for the last 50 years. During that time there have only been three countries that have been tough
to China.
But only one have really divided the chinese dominance. 1989 at the wttc in Dortmund took Sweden the roll as table tennis superpower.
This is the story of the journey before that.
It's about limitless love to a small white ball.
And to believe that you can do everyting everybody say is impossible. Man: Welcome to todays exercise. Appelgren: Round Ping Pong. You can only play nice. Woman: It is forbidden to play in a light tennis suit. Men: So you need a table tennis table. Yes you do. Glenn Östh: Two or three balls are coming this fast to
us and it is those that we have to learn. Man: I must warn you for the acetone that is flammable. Glenn Östh: I want one out there against the chinese. Man. So then will the ball go. Title: The Feat. Man: We will try to explain the most of table tennis
for beginners. It's the beginners that we want to learn. Bo Persson: We have had some bad table tennis years in the middle of the 70's, Stellan Bengtsson was getting kind of old, Kjell Johansson
had stopped playing so the league did a investment on the youth. So that the trainers would get more focus on the yout Glenn Östh: 1980 was the beginning when China invited a couple of Swedish kids to come and practise against some of the best Chinese kids.
I
Remember a meeting when some of our trainers talk about how China is a great table tennis country and what we can l Text: the first journey to China Waldner: Before i went to China so... I thought everyone looked the same
in china, that was the only that i knewed about China. Appelgren: We knew that it was a closed communist country were people were not allowed to move freely and then
we guys are coming from free Sweden.
We knew that already in the customs that there will be controls. They recognized Kjell Johansson so he did't even had to pick up his passport,
they were starting to wave with there arms about his hard hammer. Persson: I was both nervous and exited about going to China, but i was also starting the last year i 9th grade and i started to be away
from school in a month, some of my teachers told me to study at least some of the time in China, but in the end it there haven't been any studying at all. Glenn Östh: We trained in the same hall in almost 5 weeks and we had a chinese trainer
and he saw what we had to get better on and what the players already knew. Anders Johansson: I Remember one time that we thought that santa camed in with a big bag on his back, but there was
about a thousand table tennis balls in the bag and he spredded out all of these balls all over the floor. Anders Johansson: I Remember one time that we thought that santa camed in with a big bag on his back, but there was
about a thousand table tennis balls in the bag and he spredded out all of these balls all over the floor. can. Persson: It was really tough because there were men who just collected these balls
on and on so that it never ended until the trainer said it. Waldner: The first four or five days was i really thinking about giving up,
but i was obstinate and that made that i did't gave up. Erik Lindh: train, eat, sleep was the only thing you did over there. I thought that
it was a paradise because i could train almost how much i wanted to. Anders Johansson: They never gave up, they always wanted to beat a player even if the would lose a hundred times. Because they understood that
if i'm going to be the best then i have to beat these guys because there are so many chinese players that are better than me. Text: Why does the chinese win? Glenn Östh: All the chinese players are playing close table push
and attack play so that you stress your opponent. I had a little luck to find chinese instruction videos. How to play
when you are one of the best players in the world. And it shows how the chinese allways are trying to get the swedes to distance from the table because
the chinese are hitting the ball early and the swedes are waiting for the ball to go down. Here we se a chinese against a european, and after a while
are the swede leaving the table and then it's just smash. Appelgren: This is how the chinese played backhand, they pushed the ball instead of playing topspin as we did and
then played the ball wide to the forehand and then back again, and later on playing the forehand smash. While we were trying to resist offcourse. Text: Sweden becomes europes superpower. Bengt Grive: Good afternoon and welcome to the ettc and im betting
1000 to 1 that sweden will take the gold in single. Appelgren: I wasn´t that surprised because i had won top12 two months earlier. And i was semi seeded and
ranked as 3rd player in europe, But J-O were not seeded and had not played that much abroad. Bengt Grive: It´s a fast sensation, If Waldner wins this. Appelgren: Before the quarterfinals that would be played on sunday morning and this is saturday evening. J-O
is knocking on Stellan Bengtsson room because they were about to face eachother in the quarter. Stellan opens the door and J-O says "You´re going down Stellan" and then he just
run away, he´s only 16. I think that Stellan just laughed at it. J-O are playing against Klampar in the Semi and im facing Gargely,
So you could say that it´s Sweden Against Hungary in Budapest. J-O was done before me and i can se how he´s trying to push me, something like that and i could
see that he wanted us two in the final. And i win the last set with 21-4 against Gargely. Bengt Grive: Appelgren is now offensive and it is the first time in the match
that we are seing J-O on high lob, you see how he´s countering. Appelgren: J-O, famous name sense he had been 7 years old. He
slept in my sleeping bag when we were on training camps. Bengt Grive: The final match between these two players are going
to be as even as it ever could be. Appelgren: You can see our friendship in the
end and that it´s no hard feelings. Bengt Grive: And Appelgren wins the title with 21-19 in the fifth
and final game, two old club partners from Stockholms tramways. Appelgren: I saw a picture of me at his house about a month after the final, And there was a needle in my eye, so i
asked him liked whats that all about. He just answered me that you beated me in the final so i just had to do that. Waldner: He have been helping me with a lot of stuff. I have never had a driver license and he´s always been there to
pick me up. He was kind of my second brother when i was small. And i can trust him up to 100%. Appelgren: This shot for the final. Everyone: short.
Persson: he´s a coward, he putts short. waldner: He is never taking a risk, like when
he plays bowling, golf and even table tennis. Persson: Both me and J-O looked at him like that
he was the kind of dad in our gang. But it turned out that he could also be wrong. Once we talked about sleeping positions. And we ended up with
that if you sleep on the back, then you feel unsure and the opposite if you sleep in fetal position. And we all thought it was true because Mikael had said it. Then
one time when i sat on a flight reading the sunday annex And it was about sleeping positions and i thought that i have to see if it was true, but instead of what Mikael told
us it was contrary. I saved that paper just to show but he just said "that´s aint right" but now i had proof. Are we going to light some candles for the dinner. I
think this is the first time we cook together. Waldner: It´s like that german food you know that get on your sandwich, those
red things.
Do you remeber it with cucumber and that scary thing. Persson: You get in France to. Appelgren: make them small as hell. Persson: But im trying to.
You know what J-O can succumb while we cook. Waldner: Yeah how many will there be. Persson: I think that you can count that by yourself. Appelgren: Remember to make a lot of it and then you can just freeze it.
Persson: I don´t think that
you can freeze that much after this dinner.
Appelgren: What are you hungry again, you just had 2 burgers! This is fine glass, it comes from the oldest brewery in the world. Cheers. Bengt Grive: Stellan hits obliquely and some times tight angles. Peter Karlsson: Generation on generation got beated. Stellan beated Kjell and Hasse, and then the generation
with J-O and Jörgen camed and beated Stellan. And they did really competed him. Stellan Bengtsson: Can you hear me.
Appelgren: Just fine.
How are doing there in San Diego. Stellan Bengtsson: eh....... the weather is against us. Appelgren: When you became the world champion Stellan did i sit in the living room on torke knutssonsgatan, mariatorget and watched
you win.
After that my father gave me a Stellan Bengtsson Mark V Racket and a Table tennis table for christmas. Persson: That was the big break and then
table tennis got more and more popular. Appelgren: Everybody played table tennis, at work and schools.
Man: welcome to the fifth round. And
clubs that have manage to get an own hall.
Hans Alser: Just take it slowly. Ulf Lönnqvist: There was a lot of houses that was build and during these did the houses inclued a table tennis
room.
And we were also lucky to have a good table tennis organisation so that we could track the talents Persson: I got to train with and see the fire that he had even when he trained with me that was 11 years old. I
can remember that i was tired after the warmup. and i just thought how am i suppose to go through a whole training session. Appelgren: We also learned how much you had to practise to become
a good player.
Persson: that education have been good to know. Stellan: Ofcourse youre right i mean i had some inflammations in the end of the 70´s and i talked to ogimura that
was my trainer and coach and he said that i could´t quit because i had to give the new players all that you have learned throught all theese years and i
just thought what the fuck are he talking about. Appelgren: It´s about me you know.
Stellan: beat me, never i thought. Text: Harder training. Tomas Berner: the season 1983 we had 107 training camp days. plus individual
training at thier home towns, plus their leagues, plus the international competitions. Appelgren: Our practise began 09:15 to 12:00 and those hours were about footwork. After that some strenght training and then lunch.
On the
afternoon was it more moment exercises and the last thing was running. It could be from 7 kilometers to 1 mile. Reporter: he can practise on his serves for several hours a day. Tomas Berner: our players developed incredibly fast and it was then that
we thought that we might have a chance to beat China. Reporter: The china training will help sweden and J-O to gain wttc medals. Everyball can have diffrent spin and go
anywhere on the table. The training is tough and stops only when the players can´t move their arm properly. Tomas Berner: i think that J-O has been the best throught the whole season. And he´s got a chinese on his list that he
has lost and won against 2 times and it might be a good sign that he has beaten him the last two times. Wtttc 1983 Sweden - China 1-5 Tomas Berner: Mikael beats their best player xie saike and we play a pair
of close gamesbut still loses with 1-5 but we might disturbed a little. The national team on tour to China 1984 Ulf Carlsson: The strength of our team was that we had hard targets
and instead of giving up we still wanted to face them and also that every time we got beated
we learn something from every single time. Persson: I think the whole group felt that we learned something evertime we lost. Block Glenn Östh: If we go back in time to 1982 when i and Tomas Berner watched a practise with the chinese national
team on one side stood a player and blocking and on the other did someone attack with topspin or smash but the blocking guy did not know where the attacks would come. Me and Tomas talked
about that, what are the chinese doing how can they be so fast on blocking. So we saw a player called Xie Xiehao and Jiang Jialiang. He just
stood there and blocked like he had all the time he needed. Waldner: You started to loop the first one in backhand and he just blocks half
of the table while Jörgen is looping free on that half of the table. Just to find the speed at the table. We were the
first in one in Europe to train like this. Glenn Östh: When we camed home from china didn't the players
think that it was possible to train like this So we had to start with one or two on forehand and then
one or two on backhand. Just to get forward in this irregular. Tomas Berner: In this group with 8 or 10
players was it a unbelievable internal competition. You can say this easy by Mikael thought he was the best and said that loud to J-O, Erik Lindh and
Persson knew that they were the best but they did not say anything. Stellan was the best in the beginning. Persson: we tried to compete with eachother as soon as we got a opportunity and most of times
ended up with fights between the two team and it in that time the most fights were. It was more fair play when we played table tennis. Glenn Östh: This was a regular thing that everyone wanted
to beat everyone just to be the number one. They could play about a cold coke and the winner takes
it all and showed it also in the dressing room. Tomas berner: WTTC in Gothenburg was like a examination for this generation. WTTC Sweden - China 0-5 Waldner: We are in the match but we don't get that good start. To face China when they are
leading with 2 or 3-0 that is like the worst thing that can happen in the sport. Video war Glenn Östh: Thanks to the portable cameras you could figure out the other teams tactic and that was a big secret about what
strategy you were supposed to use and as soon as the cameras were portable we had one camera for every chinese player Like how does he start his matches where does he serve in the tight sets. We had so many tapes that after a while we could
just put up a camera just to irritate the chinese players. So this video war was in full swing in the middle of the 80´s. Staffan Lindeborg: Jörgen got feared by the chinese players before wttc. So much so that
China has sended a spy to the german bundesliga. He´s name is Xu Zengcai. Persson: you could feel that we were getting closer and closer to them everytime. Waldner: To face the chinese players was never scarry to me, i just felt that it was funny. You have to
get a good start so you can relax. We stayed in the arenas after we lost and sat there talked tactics. How they return and serve at 19-19. You could wake me up in the middle of the night
and i would still be stoked if knew that i was going to play against a chinese. Persson: We will beat them! that was our target. Because
we knew that they finally will lose . Glenn Östh: So the fight kept going. The place between backhand and forehand are our weak spot and the chinese play in our
weak spot in two of three strokes. We are practising this exercise just to know what stroke you are supposed to use. Waldner : the nice thing about table tennis is that you can feel the timing
and also fole youre opponent even if you have practised together for 100 years. Persson: All of those strokes that you do when no one is looking and no cameras are there are
doing that you think did someone see it but then you remember that there was no one there. Appelgren: Happiness is when you and your partner are as one. When you can feel the teamwork between
you two when it also is seriously. That is more fun than winning a easy match. Reporter: To get even better is the table tennis
national team taking help from medical scientific tests. Staffan Lindeborg: Swedens table tennis team have as
good lactic endurance as the cycling team. Persson: I have never felt as good as i do today and i feel
really fast in my legs. Everything feels right accept for my serves. WTTC 1987 Sweden-China 0-5 Reporter: Todays world championchip final was the third in a row between Sweden
and China. Sweden has only taken one match in these three finals. Mikael and J-O was stomach sick when we played the team final.
Mikael went home and choose not to play the single tournament The Zone J-O won against Chen Longcan in his last match and
here he is facing Teng Yi in the semifinal One thing that you can say about J-O is that right
now he is in that zone when everything is right I had lost about 6-8 kilos from my illnes and it camed right there.
I felt no pressure and just played like i played on my practise It's going to fast for Teng Yi. He does not
have any time at all to think it through What's happening. I feel like i can can hit every ball with any stroke i
want to and it doesn't matter if he's playing me in backhand or forehand If i would have met 10 chinese players then i would have beaten 10 chinese
player with 3-0. It is that feeling that you get in the zone It is 20-5 to J-O and he's got how many matchballs he want. The
question is if Teng Yi ever has ever been so outplayed. Chen Longcan, Teng Yi 3-0 3-0 and starts to just ruin Jiang
in the first set and has 9-3 in the second The luck that he's got just keeps going on But the final is turning into Jiangs hands Reporter: Jiang here is leading with 2-1 in sets and 23-22.
Jiang Jialiang world champion 1987 and silver for J-O Waldner But he was mentally strong and have been here before and
this match was almost like the ETTC final 1982 When J-O got to the final i think that it was a kick for the whole team because we all saw that they could be beat because J-O
won over two of them. We also knew that we are not that far away to because we were always playing even with J-O on practise. Muscle training a three and a half long Muscle training period is starting right now. Waldner, Persson and all the others are going to train thier Muscle 6
hours every week accept but all the table tennis. Glenn Östh got the idea from wttc in India when he saw Waldner first lost four kilos so that he then got way faster. He just got faster and he could work more with his forehand and now that
he's his normal wight that means that he must be much stronger in the legs to be as fast as he was in India Reporter: Now you lifted 50 kilos but in october
are you supposed to lift 100 kilos Waldner: No problem Persson:The sore that our team had is hard to explain, we thought
that the hole team was hurt but we were just sore We had to do another step, to make sure that the players could play both forehand and backhand with topspin because in
the last wttc finals did they play topspin with forehand but when it camed to forehand they stopped playing with topspin. It was hard to lift up the ball with backhand especially against china because they pushed it down
with their short pippled rubbers. So it was a heavy ball that you had to lift up. Waldner: Down to the forehand and then do the
backhand and Mikael gets passive then it's dangerous. Now we started playing topspined backhand so that we didn´t had to back of
the table so that they had time pressure and we got more agressive We felt it in the group that we were almost there. We won
tournaments, Erik Lindh won there, Jörgen won there, I won there. We had the responsibility for the ultimate team 1989 in Dortmund. They did everything they
could do and a little more. Every stroke was in the right place. Sweden is a great power in table tennis. Best in Europe and second in the world after
China. Maybe the muscle training is what it takes for sweden to beat China, but when? Final 1989 Staffan Lindeborg: 69 countries played in this mens team world championship. Now there is
only 2 countries left, China the world champion nation and Sweden. Appelgren: Jörgen, J-O, me, Erik Lindh and Peter Karlsson that had played
him in to the team ang got better than Ulf Ulf Carlsson: This was the first year that me and my firend Ulf Bengtsson wasn´t on the team on like 10 years but i know that
it was a big fight about who would play in the team finals because it was only 3 players that could play in the match. It was like from the movie The Hitchcock because before the match we all sat in our hotell room, everyone wanted to play. You didn´t
got that much eye contact with eachother. Then Glenn said one name at a time. He said J-O you are going to play. Ok then it was only two players left and then it camed, Jörgen you will play tonight. Oh then i was like phhhhhooo. But
still you could not show the happiness to the other because everyone wanted to play the match and everyone could play the match. Staffan Lindeborg: Swedens team tonight in this mens team
world championship final. Appelgren, Persson and Waldner Glenn Östh: I didn´t choose Erik Lindh for this match. Erik Lindh: I was a little sad but just on my self, i didn´t blame it on Glenn or someone else because we had 4 players
of the ten best in the world and i were ranked 5 in to the tournament so i was the second best swedish player. But i did not play the team final and that was the best thing that
could happen that we had 4 players that could play the team final. Staffan Lindeborg: And the question is if these three
players finally can destroy the chinese wall. Glenn Östh: They think that we will start with Waldner who they think is
our strongest weapon and i pick my secret weapon wich is Äpplet So they had to come up with a new idea and i know that Jiang Jialiang is playing
first for China who then was world champion with two straight world totles 85 and 87 Appelgren: Glenn had a a version of what he thought was good. So he
brought a black board to show me plan A, B, C like Glenn Östh: It felt good to trick these chinese players
who i have idolized for a whole decade Judger: First set 0-0 Appelgren serve Appelgren: I have faced him before and i know how i should play but to get this to
work is a really hard task because he is the world champion and has won allmost everything Glenn Östh: Do not back away! We had trained for two years now that Äpplet is suppose
to not back away from the table and make a topspin when he can Bengt Grive: And he dares to make a
topsinned backhand without using to much power Jiang seems a bit more chocked than Appelgren Appelgren: I am feeling really fast and i can work
with my forehand almost over the whole table Stffan Lindeborg: Jiang lost the first set against Appelgren Appelgren: I'm starting to sense that.... this is good you know, this is fun Bengt Grive: Jiang have to come up with something new. Play even faster 1-0 3-1 Appelgren: Fuck what a forehand. Waldner: He´s in good shape Persson: he was almost a great player when it was tied.
Appelgren: yeah he lost few times when it was tied Appelgren: Was that a straight forehand Staffan Lindeborg: I think Appelgren is forced away
from the table to many times now Waldner: Now he starts with his 87 oss. You remember? Appelgren: When he walks down to our bench when it's 11
all in the 3rd set and do he´s oss I have to get my game to work I have to get my game to work Staffan Lindeborg: great backhand play by appelgren Glenn Östh: I can see that he is going away from the
table but then he thinks again and stays at the table Staffan Lindeborg: He just stood there and swinged he's backhand with topspin Appelgren: I don't have to be afraid for anything. Then i can be free as a sportsman, and u can
not lock yourself as a sportsman, you have to feel free when you are standing at the table Matchball for Sweden Staffan Lindeborg: And he hits his serve in to
the net and Sweden is in the lead Waldner: Nobody would say that now we will win when we have
2-0. But everyone knew that it was a great match Waldner: You have to hit every change u get Bengt Grive: I don't understand why he didn't got that in Waldner: but then u don't and u get a terrible start Glenn Östh: I think i am trying to say "J-O stay at the table. Waldner: Then i have the lead in the 2nd set with
20-15 up to 20-19 when i'm doing a spectacular ball And i feel that i got in to the zone. And everything becomes easier I don´t have to play harder, but i'm still hitting the ball great Bengt Grive: He has started playing faster and now he controls the tempo Appelgren: It was so damn tied, you remember? Waldner: I knew that it would be even. I thought
that it would be 19 all in the 3rd Waldner: I saw you Jörgen doing all these old stretching exercises Persson: It is not that great if u look at
me when it's 17 all in the 3rd Persson: It is not that great if u look at
me when it's 17 all in the 3rd Staffan Lindeborg: Waldner got three matchballs on teng yi Bengt Grive: And finally. He always used to lose the tied matches Persson: I really wanted to use the opportunity
that Äpplet and J-O had given us Staffan Lindeborg: Sweden have never taken more than one match
against China in the earlier 80´s team finals Jörgen are now losing point after point Persson: I´m down 0-1 8-14. But you can see that they are playing us to
the forehand and then back to the backhand, and then we moved backwards Even that i were down i felt like no don´t give up, show
good body language. Take the change, it might be my last. of course you are nervous when you are playing. But i tried
to turn it and think that my opponent is also nervous Do the unexpected, trust yourself Staffan Lindeborg: Now chen are a little bit to stiff Persson: I felt that oh now he misses the most
and that i am getting it a little easier He got stressed because he had 14-8 and i
recovered quickly and we had 2-0 in matches Brave and great played Persson: The chinese were more like the coach´s puppets because we saw that they
often looked at the coach like oh he has becomed better on that We felt that we got a mentally advantage by that we
could change the tactics while the set was going Staffan Lindeborg: Chen loncan is completely stiff. He can´t stop Jörgen Persson now. Staffan Lindeborg: Chen loncan is completely stiff. He can´t stop Jörgen Persson now. Jörgen got 7 matchballs Appelgren: you oss there 20-13 right Staffan lindeborg: And it´s 3-0 to Sweden Waldner: 3-0. Somehow it feels like the match is over because all of us won our match.
But that´s really dangerous, and i was up next to play my most important match when i was so close to do it two years
ago. But then he started with all his drama Staffan Lindeborg, Bengt Grive: It seems like Jiang refuse to continue.
It seems like Jiang wants to exchange the judger this is the wttc´s biggest outrage Glenn Östh: It is the beginning of the 3rd set when Jiang
has his racket under the table when he serves backhand There! But Jiang won´t accept it Bengt Grive: Now Jiang walks up to Glenn Östh Glenn Östh: He walks towards me and says that i´m the
world champion and i can´t serve wrong right Glenn? But i don´t agree of course and i just
pick up a banana and start eating Staffan Lindeborg: he has just behaved badly, really badly Waldner: If u give him one more change he can play, it´s ok? Persson: It felt like a desperate act to get us out of balance. So
that we would start thinking like oh now we have almost beaten China Waldner: the thing about is that team are their biggest title. If their final results are 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, in single with 6 competitors and 2nd place in team so are they unhappy Glenn Östh: If the service is wrong it is not our problem Staffan Lindeborg: we have now had a break of 12 minutes It is clear that the judger did nothing wrong, but just so that
the team Final will go on. Will the judger be exchanged. there were doubts about if the world champion would
continue if the judger would not get exchanged The decision has been taking for the entertainment. Because we wanted the
match to end by the table and not by the judgers. Bengt Grive: It didn´t look good and what happens.
Now he gets the whole crowd against him Waldner: He must have felt that it was his
last change to do something for China Staffan Lindeborg: Like that, perfectly played by Waldner and one of those, What a backhand! He got five matchballs. There will soon be a loud scream
coming from the crowd if Waldner wins this. Yes! 4-0 Appelgren: Then it´s just for me to go in and finish it all Persson: I think all of us felt that we can not lose right now Bengt Grive: I think China is close to their final disintegration Appelgren: Everything Worked. unbelievable happines. game desire. imagination just ran wild. We knew everything Persson: It is the feeling you get, because we believed it and
when we achieve that you know that feeling is lovely Staffan lindeborg: 17-14 to Appelgren. There is a big
chole the chinese table tennis wall right now 19-15 and Sweden are two petty points away
from the wttc title in table tennis It is Matchball! And they are 5. We are on our
way to write swedish sport history and world history For Appelgren and for Sweden Glenn Östh, Jörgen Persson, Mikael appelgren, Jan-Ove Waldner, Erik Lindh, Peter
Karlsson and Sweden has destroyed the big chinese wall. Totally! The joy, that´s when we can win together. It´s great to win the single title to
but the biggest happines is when we can win together, everything we've done together, all these hours of training together and we have been fighting sometimes... And then we walk into
the match together and telling eacother like C´mon now. So there you have the Joy After the team victory in Dormund does Sweden also win gold
and silver in single thanks to J-O and Jörgen Two years later comes an even bigger surprise from Sweden. They win team, single and
doubles. J-O and Jörgen are ones more in the single final together But Jörgen becomes the world champion this time. Mona sahlin: You have done the biggest sport performance in Sweden history 1992 J-O becomes olympic champion and 93 wins sweden their third team title 1995. 6 years after the final in Dortmund. Does China come back 1995. 6 years after the final in Dortmund. Does China come back Sweden defeats in a tied final The order is restored. And this year (2012) won china the mens team
title for the 6th time. But Sweden are no longer that good. Anders Thunström: I think that china misses a real opponent. And i
think they miss a country that they can really get beaten Peter Karlsson: Everyone says the same that, It was so fun when Sweden was a good country. You
might think that they say the opposite. So i can meet a chinese on the street who recognizes me and starts talking table tennis. And everyone is very positive to that era.
And they are also asking when will Sweden become as good as they were
