‘Olympic Grandma’ makes her debut at 58

Old is gold: Zeng Zhiying returns a shot during a training session in Santiago. — AFP

SANTIAGO: Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania.

Tania Zeng, who became famous in Chile after winning a bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Santiago last year, retired from table tennis long ago.