The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will welcome back the fastest sport played on a tabletop: table tennis. Have you called it ping-pong before? Excusez-Moi, but that is an Olympic faux pas.

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As the game became ubiquitous, two names prevailed: table tennis and ping-pong. To capitalize on the game, a company named J. Jaques & Son Ltd. trademarked "ping-pong" in 1901 and manufactured ...

The name ping-pong inspired the virtual world, when video game manufacturer Atari developed the game "Pong." The game was the digital version of table tennis, and the name derives from ping-pong.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will welcome back the fastest sport played on a tabletop: table tennis. Have you called it ping-pong before? Excusez-Moi, but that is an Olympic faux pas.