Man of wisdom, Colin Clemett celebrates landmark birthday

Colin Clemett, nonagenerian (Photo: Rémy Gros) by Ian Marshall, Editor Need the voice of experience, need a reasoned decision or to check some intricate fact on the history of table tennis, there is one man who surpasses all. Today, Thursday 3rd January, England’s Colin Clemett, elected Personal Honorary Member of the International Table Tennis Federation in 2007, celebrates his 90th birthday. The author of “From London to London”, the book to celebrate the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games, underlined the character of Colin Clemett; hours of painstaking research were undertaken; the result a publication was presented in a logical, detailed and clearly understandable manner. Simply, he is a mine of information and in a similar vein, the man to whom you turn if an