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What’s the most sensitive equipment on the planet? An athlete’s hands, perhaps
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Athletes in table tennis, like Singapore's Clarence Chew, are always making subtle changes to adjust to different balls.
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Put a blindfold on Olympian Clarence Chew. Ask him to open his hands. Place table tennis balls in them. Can he tell them apart?
“By feel?” he asks.
