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Olympic hero wants to party with Åberg: "Talk about a party"

The Olympic Games hero Truls Möregårdh is looking forward to meeting the people back home in Eslöv and is happy to party together with Ludvig Åberg. The golf star has revealed that he is planning a party. Talk about a party. I think that sounds like a crazy good idea. He can just put in some of his Masters money there.

» Updated: 19 August 2024, 07:45

» Published: 09 August 2024

Olympic hero wants to party with Åberg: "Talk about a party"
Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

A phenomenal Olympic Games are over for the 22-year-old. Then he talks about the pride of having surpassed himself, the team's success, and what the OS success means for Swedish table tennis in the future.

But when you're 22, you're 22.

Then it's fun to party – and a highly deserved one awaits if you come home with two silvers.

Celebrating to catch up

We'll try to find as many friends as we can. We've had a lot of success this year, me and Ludvig (Åberg, the golf star who's also from Eslöv), so we have a lot of celebrating to catch up on, he says.

It was certainly close in terms of results, but Möregårdh, Kristian Karlsson, and Anton Källberg were still not close to shaking the Chinese ping-pong wall.

China won the team final with 3–0.

We're quite far away, that's just the way it is, says Möregårdh.

But the wall did give off some vibrations.

I think all their players were a bit stressed. This means a lot to them and they have a lot on their shoulders, especially when they play as a team.

They showed how strong they are in pressured situations and I'm so impressed by how they can handle it every time we get into tight sets.

At the same time, his star power grew in China. Möregårdh is hardly a new acquaintance for the ping-pong-crazy population. In a country with 1.4 billion inhabitants and where table tennis is a national sport, he can barely show himself among people without it becoming hysterical.

It won't get easier in the future.

"Always chaos in China"

And according to Möregårdh, it's mostly girls and women who follow the sport.

If you'd come to China, you'd see that 95 percent of the girls are watching the matches.

We always take the kitchen routes out. It's always chaos in China when you play there and it's as fun as can be.

When he's asked to pick out a moment from the Olympic Games, he responds quickly:

It will never be possible to get away from when I secured the silver in the semifinal against Hugo Calderano. I've watched it afterwards a few times and I cry every time.

The singles tournament is among the sickest things that have happened in Olympic contexts and absolutely the sickest thing that has happened in my life. It can't be compared to anything else.

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