The 11-year-old table tennis star!
This week the Commonwealth Games are on in Australia
This week the Commonwealth Games are on in The Gold Coast in Australia!
The Commonwealth Games are for countries in The Commonwealth – a group of countries that were part of the UK many years ago and still have the Queen of England.
The Games are every four years. There are 22 sports like swimming, basketball, cycling and running. This year they are in The Gold Coast in Australia, a city famous for its beautiful beaches!
There are 6,000 athletes from 71 countries like the UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
Anna, 11 years old, is a table tennis player from Wales. She is the youngest athlete at the Games in 2018. She started playing when she was five years old and practises for three hours every day after school.
Anna might soon become a world table tennis champion, but she is still a high school student and her teachers say don’t forget to finish your homework at the Commonwealth games!
1. Is your country at The Commonwealth Games this year?2. What is your favourite sport to watch? Why?
3. What international sports games do you want to watch in 2018?
ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP / Getty Images
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10 April 2018 at 16:43
I love sport. My favourite sport is soccer. I play soccer, handball, basketball, I ride a bike and play volleyball. I snowboard in winter and I go swimming. So I am quite sporty. Of course I watch sport on TV too. I watch soccer when there are some important games. Cristiano Ronaldo is my favourite sports star because he is sporty and he is the best and he is nice and he never gives up. I am going to watch Football World Cup 2018 in Russia and I hope Poland will get to the finals. In our team we've got Robert Lewandowski and he is the best footballer in Poland and he has a lot of experience.
11 April 2018 at 14:12
wow
13 April 2018 at 12:29
Wow the best go go go
13 April 2018 at 13:47
I love table tennis.
16 April 2018 at 09:31
Amazing! I love table tennnis is impressionant
16 April 2018 at 09:32
Wow, three hours every day after school. It's a lot of hours
16 April 2018 at 15:55
I like sports. I do sport every day. I play football, handball, volleyball, hockey. I started playing football when I was seven years old and handball when I was ten years old. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays I go to school and have extra sport lessons. My favourtie sports are football and handball. My favourite sports star is Robert Lewandowski. He is a football player from Poland. He is vary talented and he works vary hard. I watch sports on TV but not every day. I am going to watch the football world cup in June. Sport is my life. Team sports are my favourite.
17 April 2018 at 08:58
Table tennis is the best sport of the world
17 April 2018 at 09:15
Very gOod ! i love table tennis in the school and I think that it's a interesting sport :-)
19 April 2018 at 03:28
What a coincidence, table tennis is my favorite sport, I play table Tennis about every week I played about 8 hours per time, I played Table tennis a few years ago but then I stopped.But I started to practice this year because I just bought a new racket last December it’s a Stiga celero wood with two sides of chinese rubber（PF4）,at first I couldn’t play it very well because it is the first time I played with a costume made racket,but now,I’m getting better and Better.
21 April 2018 at 15:47
you're a crack Anna
23 April 2018 at 12:08
I like sports very much . My favorite sport is baseball . But I like not only baseball but also badminton. Badminton makes me happy. And l like watching baseball games on TV. So when l always watch TV, I watch baseball games .
23 April 2018 at 16:54
I like sport. I do sport five times a week. I love horse riding. I stared horse riding when I was eight. I have horse riding lessons four times a week, sometimes more often. Last weekend I had a competition - dressage and I won the first place. I am soo happy and my parents are proud. I wasn't stressed because I love it. I watched FEI Dressage World Cup Grand Prix Final a few weeks ago on TV. It was amazing.
30 April 2018 at 10:22
I like sports very much. My favorite sports is volleyball and swimming.And I like watching volleyball games and swimming on TV very much too.I usually play volleyball with my friends.They are in the volleyball teams.They are good at volleyball.And I learned swimming four years ago.But I still like swimming.
6 May 2018 at 03:39
I like curling. Because ,it was fan and I have my curling team.
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