
Mao and Nixon play Ping Pong – Sports Bizarre
From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 3/19/2023

From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 3/19/2023
In the early 1970s, with China and the United States locked in a Cold War struggle, it took Ping Pong to save the world. With diplomatic ties severed between Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, the US Table Tennis team were sent to China to mend relations. Things got off to a rough start when one…