Ping Pong
Season 26 Episode 9 | 52m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Seven players compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships.
Call this old age, extreme edition: Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China's Inner Mongolia. British players Terry, who has been given a week to live, and Les, a weightlifter and poet, are going for the gold. Inge, from Germany, has used table tennis to paddle her way out of dementia. And Texan Lisa, is playing for the first time.
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Ping Pong
Season 26 Episode 9 | 52m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Call this old age, extreme edition: Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China's Inner Mongolia. British players Terry, who has been given a week to live, and Les, a weightlifter and poet, are going for the gold. Inge, from Germany, has used table tennis to paddle her way out of dementia. And Texan Lisa, is playing for the first time.
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Ping Pong: Filmmaker Interview
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 9m 13s | Filmmakers Hugh and Anson Hartford discuss their film, Ping Pong. (9m 13s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 2m 58s | Inge competes at the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championship. (2m 58s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 2m 19s | Watch a deleted scene from the feature documentary 'Ping Pong.' (2m 19s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 5m 30s | Les competes at the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championship (5m 30s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 3m 7s | Inge, 89, from Germany, has used table tennis to paddle her way out of dementia. (3m 7s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 1m 39s | Meet Les D'Arcy, a 91-year-old weightlifter and poet, going for the gold. (1m 39s)
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 1m 9s | An introduction to the rules of ping pong at the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. (1m 9s)
Ping Pong: Time Is Running Out
Clip: S26 Ep9 | 1m 33s | Watch a deleted scene from the feature documentary 'Ping Pong.' (1m 33s)
Preview: S26 Ep9 | 2m 34s | Eight players between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. (2m 34s)
Preview: S26 Ep9 | 30s | Premieres Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings. (30s)
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