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In the early 90's , the Swedish TableTennis Association made one of the most bizarre rule proposal changes at ITTF BGM (now AGM).
They did this to maintain the supremacy of their Men’s Dream Team 2
The proposal if passed would have required all rackets in tabletennis to have identical type rubbers on both sides of the racket.
Bigger shock was that the proposal was actually defeated, given that probably about 90% ITTF council then were robotNazis or robotNazi puppets.

However what was even more bizarre was the fact that they made a 180 degree turn around of the above stance.
Around 2011 or so, they made a proposal to ITTF to repeal the Frictionless Pips Ban of 2008 in support of their male player Fabian Ackerstrom who was using Frictionless Type Long Pips.

However now it looks like a Swede & a woman, Petra Sorling won’t support any rule or regulation changes to help Linda Bergstrom, a woman chopper from Sweden. And the current Swedish Prime Minister is a woman, Magdalena Andersson

Talk about Women’s Rights in Sweden & Diversity in IOC TableTennis

What’s so incredibly weird about all this is that both the two previous proposals were totally ridiculous but the reasonable request to correct the Aspect Ratio to a fair value, like at least 1.5 had been rejected by Petra Sorling & previous two ITTF presidents.
Instead the previous two presidents wanted to further reduce the most distinct element of the sport, spin, to compete with sports like pickleball by proposing further increase in ball size & even a totally new & bizarre sport called TTX

Do you want to hear something even mosre bizarre about this issue ?

The cult leader Rev.Larry Hodges openly posted in 2000 that he supports the 1998 Durban Aspect Ratio reduction massacre because it would prevent billions of juniors from leaving the sport but the cult leader supports the Swidish proposal to have the 2008 Frictionless Pips Ban repealed (though somehow magically it won't effect juniors) OMG