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The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is now the largest International Federation, with 222 National Associations.

Sao Tome & Principe and South Sudan were accepted into the ITTF family today at the ITTF Annual General Meeting (AGM) to overtake Volleyball as the largest International Federation.
At this historic moment, the ITTF President Mr Thomas Weikert stated “As the ITTF President I am very proud that ITTF has achieved the number one status in terms of membership as our goal is not just to be among the top five sports overall, but also within each area. This is then another milestone on the path to achieve this."
The newest additions is a result of the ITTF's Development Program's objective to grow national associations to have table tennis played in every corner of the globe.
The ITTF Development Program, which was initiated in 1999, has now added 42 new National Associations, with new addition of 2-3 new members per year.
Quantity is not what the ITTF is solely looking at; the Program offers support for member associations around the world support in terms of equipment, coach training, player training and more to assist them in developing and growing in a sustainable way.
With the inclusion of Sao Tome & Principe and South Sudan, the ITTF will only have 4 more countries, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Bahamas, remaining in the Olympic family to integrate in order to reach its final goal of having a National Association in every country possible.
The ITTF is currently in contact with the Olympic Committees of these remaining countries, aiming to achieve full inclusion of all members of the Olympic family to the table tennis family.

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Wow! Bigger than FIFA even. I thought nothing could match FIFA.

Iskandar

Hooray! The ITTF has been gunning for this for a long time. Now they can claim table tennis is the most popular sport in the world. And with the most members, this makes the ITTF the #1 international federation.

I'm sure they'll be able to bribe the remaining four countries into joining to achieve total world domination.

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Now they have spent the money on acquiring the quantity, how about spending money on improving the quality?

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Yes it does seem like a rather meaningless target, mainly to be able to boast that they're #1 at something.
AFAIK the vote of these tiny nations (at an ITTF AGM), will carry the same weight as the votes from nations like China, Germany, etc. The cynic in me tel me that these tiny nations will likely depend heavily on the ITTF funding, so they're not likely to vote against ITTF propositions, or would be easily influenced if they do.

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That's how Adham got reelected despite shocking allegations of corruption. Half the electorate was more concerned about keeping him in power to make sure the ITTF's free stuff keeps coming.

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