ANDREA Holt's Olympic dream has fallen apart in the preliminary round of the women's table tennis doubles event in Atlanta. The Ramsbottom star (pictured below) and her doubles partner Lisa Lomas were defeated by German pair Olga Nemes and Jie Schopp in straight sets. But it was a titanic struggle. Both sets went to the wire with the Germans overcoming the British pair by identical scores of 21-19.

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