This guy is great!
his speech reads pretty much on the same entertainment level as an Onion article :)
"Virtually every single one of our international sports were either invented or codified by the British, and I say this respectfully to our Chinese hosts who have excelled so magnificently at ping pong," the Mayor said in a tongue-in-cheek speech.
"Ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century and it was called wiff waff.
"There I think you have the essential difference between us and the rest of world.
"Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner, we looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play wiff waff. That is why London is the sporting capital of the world."
"And I say to the Chinese, and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home."
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