Thai table tennis star Orawan Paranang fires balls across the practice table that dominates the living room of her modest house on the edge of Bangkok. The makeshift training setup is the final stage of a 17-year journey that has taken the left-hander from poverty in rural Thailand to the grand stage of the Olympics.

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