It took a while before table tennis got accepted as an Olympic Sport, but if finally made its appearance at the 1988 games in Seoul. Also sometimes known as ping pong, table tennis is based on the game of tennis, but involves players hitting a ball over a net on a table. Instead of on a large court.

There are four main types of table tennis events included in the games, namely singles for women, singles for men, a men's team event and a women's team event. The ExCel venue in London will be hosting the table tennis action and they'll be the chance of winning one of the four gold medals.

The Great Britain team is working hard to train many young table tennis hopefuls and Britain's number one table tennis player, Paul Drinkhall, is just one of the names to look out for.