Kiron Choudhury: 1^st Jun 2008.

Sport for All

Bertie Levinge, Ireland and Les D’arcy, England have won the Gold over 85’s in World Veteran Championship in Rio de Janeiro. Bertie was disappointed a little bit not winning the gold in singles’ tournament, but, has settled with a Bronze in the same category.
At the other end of the scale Colum Slevin, over 40s’, fought a brave battle at semi final loosing by a narrow gap. Colum won a Bronze as well.
We are all very much proud of our heroes in Ireland.
Well done Bertie, Well done Colum.
1^st Jun 2008.

An extract from email received from Peter De Low, son of Dorothy (Dot) De Low is appended below :
Hi Folks - This link should take you to my mother(97) playing table tennis on television this morning. She leaves for Rio tomorrow to play in the World Veterans’ Table tennis Championship. Regards

Click on 'Dot playing at 97' to watch her playing.
Dot playing at 97  

Doris De Low playing at the age of 95.

"Table Tennis is a sport for people of all ages and Doris De Low, who is ninety-five years old, is still going strong. She was the oldest volunteer on duty at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and during the break in proceedings played former Australian international Paul Pinkewich".

Table Tennis Illustrated
Issue 60 - March/April 2006

An extract from Peter De Low, dated 14th Jul 2005;
"My mother is playing table tennis - hope I am still alive at 94."

Dorothy De Low, New South Wales, Australia.
Dated 26th Dec, 2004.

Dorothy was the winner of World Veteran Championship over 80's, which was held in RDS in Dublin in 1992. I met the lady while playing in the World Veteran Championship in 1992. My wife Therese and Dorothy became very good friends. Since then we keep in touch with each other.

Following is an extract from the email received from Peter De Low, Dorothy's son, on 26th Dec 2004.

"Pete's mother Doris continues to power along. She recently passed her annual driving test, which allows her to keep driving until her next test at age 95. Her Table Tennis has not taken her far from home (comparatively) with a trip to Japan in June and Canberra. At both events she was the oldest competitor and she received a lot of attention from the media. She was filmed and interviewed in Canberra and the segment formed part of the Sydney ABC nightly news publicity you can buy!""

Bertie playing table tennis at the age of 84 and wins Gold.

Bertie Levinge from Kinsale, Cork, Ireland paired with Curt Osterholm of Sweden wins the Gold in Mens Double Over 80's.
It's an excellent achievement and we are all proud of you Bertie. Congratulation and Well done.