Themen's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Thursday 2 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists. In the 2008 event all Theopening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8, 2008, is still regarded as China’s coming out party to the world. The two weeks that followed Zhang Yimou’s production, which In1992 (only), two bronze medals were awarded in each event. In 2008, the doubles events were replaced by team events to lessen the emphasis on doubles play. Chinese table tennis team won 8 medals and made podium sweeps on the men's and woman's singles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Due to China's dominance in the sport, the format was Individualevents consisted of preliminaries, semifinals and finals. The order of divers in the preliminary round were determined by computerized random selection, during the Technical Meeting. The 18 divers with the highest scores in the preliminaries proceeded to the semifinals. Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard. Inthis article, you'll see the the Beijing Olympics medal table from 2008 looked like for each country but also the winter olympics table. Skip to content Features e90auMC.