KUWAIT CITY — The US Olympic table tennis team has been training at a US military encampment in Kuwait where “the best ping-pong players in the world” are found, a spokesman for the team confirmed today.
“The facilities are first-class, of course,” coach Stefan Feth told reporters about Camp Arifjan’s sprawling table tennis facilities. “But it was the huge number of competitors who spend almost every hour of the day playing table tennis that really caught my attention.”
“It’s as if all anyone does around here is play ping pong,” he later added.
While many details about Camp Arifjan are secret, the encampment is widely known by US veterans as a major hub of competitive table tennis. In 2014, the Wall Street Journal chronicled the rise of international table tennis phenom David George, who had deployed to Kuwait as a mechanic with the Montana Army National Guard.
