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How many Olympic table tennis events are there

Olympic table tennis programs: men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team, mixed doubles.

Table tennis officially became an Olympic sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when there were four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles. at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, table tennis eliminated men's doubles and women's doubles and replaced them with men's and women's teams, and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, table tennis added mixed doubles.

Table tennis at the Olympics utilizes the latest competition rules of the International Table Tennis Federation. In each game, when one side is the first to score 11 or more points and is ahead of its opponent by more than 2 points, the game is over and the side with the highest score wins. Each event in the team competition is a 3 out of 5 game system; while the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles are all a 4 out of 7 game system.

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