Can the Chinese table tennis team go to the Hong Kong team?

I can go. There are a lot of Chinese/Chinese (mainland) athletes who represent other sports associations in the Olympic table tennis event. This includes Hong Kong.

On the men's side, the most famous are Li Jing/Gao Lize, the men's doubles runner-up at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Among them, Li Jing was selected for the Chinese national team in 1990. After retiring from the national team, she represented Hong Kong, China and won the Olympic men's doubles runner-up.

More famous is the female table tennis player Chen Jing, who won the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals in women's singles in 1988, 96 and 00 respectively. Among them, 96,00 is for representing Chinese Taipei. It's just that she was ostracized by the team because of the handicap incident. Compared with other Olympic champions, the mainland rarely mentioned her.

After 2008, the ITTF issued a restriction order, which greatly restricted retired players from mainland China from participating in international events on behalf of other sports associations, unless you immigrated at a young age. (ITTF hopes that we will export coaches and young athletes rather than already trained athletes)

So although there are still a large number of Chinese competing on behalf of other sports associations in recent years, the polarization is very serious. . Either they are young people like Lily Zhang and Amy Wang, or they are old athletes like Ni Xialian and He Zhiwen.