It Will Be Tough, but Gavin Rumgay Doesn't Mind Going Back to School, Finds Roddy Mackenzie ; Scot Off to China in Bid for Power

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Gavin Rumgay will go to any lengths in his bid to become the first Scot to play in an Olympic table tennis event. The Scottish No 1 and British No 4 leaves for China this month for a four-week training camp, hoping it will provide the foundations for his challenge.

Having been to similar camps, he knows how tough a regime it will be. It is a monastic existence of six hours of repetitive table tennis every day, followed by an hour in the gym, while keeping to a strict diet, but he believes it will hone him for the final push towards London 2012.

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It Will Be Tough, but Gavin Rumgay Doesn't Mind Going Back to School, Finds Roddy Mackenzie ; Scot Off to China in Bid for Power

He leaves for Jilin Province, north of Beijing, on January 20, having reached his highest world ranking (221), but he knows he will be training alongside b...

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