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as a table tennis player, I have known your website http://www.ittf.com/ for a long time, of course. While doing research for the German branch of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, I thought that many of the images in the andro ITTF Photo Gallery might be appropriate for inclusion in our articles concerning table tennis and table tennis players. Especially in the section about well-known table tennis players there is still a lot of work to be done.

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Thank you for your time.

Kindly, Axel Brocke

Mo El-Shentenawy, Information Technology Manager, International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)