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Table tennis veteran Timo Boll has been hailed as “the greatest German athlete at the moment” and approaches his seventh and final Olympics in Paris determined to bow out with another medal. Boll, 43, is a former world number one, an eight-time European singles champion and has Olympic team event medals from the last four Games: silver in 2008 and 2021, plus bronze in 2012 and 2016. Boll fought back from a shoulder injury last year to compete at one final Games since a Sydney 2000 debut, and will team up full of ambition with Dang Qiu and Dimitrij Ovtcharov in Paris. “We’re spoilt for success….

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