2012 table tennis olympic where when who
Table Tennis at the 2012 Olympics will be held in a venue called ExCeL, a multi-purpose events venue that will also host a number of other Olympic and Paralympic sports. The dates of the matches will be from Saturday the 28th of July until Wednesday the 8th of August. There will be 4 medal events that 172 athletes will try their best to get into. An even split of 86 men and 86 women.
The table tennis schedule for 2012 in detail, you can see that most days have 3 sessions of table tennis with about 2 hours rest between:
28 July
09:00 - 12:45 Men's Singles: preliminaries Women's Singles: preliminaries, round 1
14:30 - 17:30 Men's Singles: round 1 Women's Singles: round 1
19:00 - 22:00 Men's Singles: round 1 Women's Singles: round 1
29 July
09:00 - 12:00 Men's Singles: round 2 Women's Singles: round 2
13:30 - 16:30 Men's Singles: round 2
18:00 - 22:00 Women's Singles: round 3
30 July
10:00 - 14:00 Men's Singles: round 3
15:30 - 17:30 Women's Singles: round 4
19:00 - 21:00 Men's Singles: round 4
31 July
10:00 - 14:00 Women's Singles: quarter-finals
16:00 - 18:00 Women's Singles: semi-finals
20:00 - 22:00 Men's Singles: quarter-finals
1 August
10:00 - 12:00 Men's Singles: quarter-finals
14:30 - 16:30 Women's Singles: bronze medal match, gold medal match, victory ceremony
2 August
10:00 - 12:00 Men's Singles: semi-finals
14:30 - 16:30 Men's Singles: bronze medal match, gold medal match, victory ceremony
3 August
10:00 - 13:00 Women's Team: round 1
14:30 - 17:30 Women's Team: round 1
19:00 - 22:00 Men's Team: round 1
4 August
10:00 - 13:00 Men's Team: round 1
14:30 - 17:30 Women's Team: quarter-finals
19:00 - 22:00 Women's Team: quarter-finals
5 August
10:00 - 13:00 Men's Team: quarter-finals
14:30 - 17:30 Men's Team: quarter-finals
19:00 - 22:00 Women's Team: semi-final
6 August
10:00 - 13:00 Women's Team: semi-final
14:30 - 17:30 Men's Team: semi-final
19:00 - 22:00 Men's Team: semi-final
7 August
11:00 - 14:00 Women's Team: bronze medal match
15:30 - 18:30 Women's Team: gold medal match, victory ceremony
8 August
11:00 - 14:00 Men's Team: bronze medal match
15:30 - 18:30 Men's Team: gold medal match, victory ceremony
I expect China to win because: since Table Tennis joined the Olympic programme in 1988, China has won 20 of the 24 available gold medals. The only European Olympic gold medallist so far has been the Swedish player Jan-Ove Waldner who won the men’s Singles at Barcelona in 1992.