When watching the semi-final of the team event in the Olympic men’s table tennis competition yesterday, I discovered that one of the German players looks like the famous tennis player Boris Becker. The table tennis player goes by the name of Christian Suss, and he mustn’t be a bad player because Germany made it to the gold medal match after defeating Japan in the semi-final. Of course, Germany is greatly aided by the fact that it has Timo Boll, the only laowai who has a remote chance of beating the top Chinese players.
After seeing Suss in action, I excitedly told my workmates of his resemblance to Boris Becker, but unfortunately no one knew the German tennis champ. After getting such a poor reaction from my workmates, I have decided to inflict this set of look-alikes on the readers of my blog (who seem to have increased since the start of the Olympics – I have been receiving quite a number of critical comments ).
The gold medal match between China and Germany will start tonight at 7:30pm Beijing time.
 Boris Becker in 1989. Picture from Sporting-heroes.net
 Boris Becker look-alike Christian Suss on the right, Timo Boll on the left. Picture from Daylife.
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