Bill Guilfoil set to trial for U.S. table-tennis team for Rio Olympics

AGE is clearly just a number for Bill Guilfoil, who at 93-years-old is preparing to trial for his second Olympic Games.

IT’S never too late to go for the gold.

Just ask 93-year-old Bill Guilfoil, who will be competing at the U.S. Olympic table-tennis trials next month.

As a good-standing member of USA Table Tennis, Guilfoil is eligible to compete alongside the more elite players at the U.S. trials, so long as he pays the entry fee.

Though this isn’t Guilfoil’s first time at the U.S. Olympic trials rodeo. The Kansas native — who grew up playing both tennis and table tennis and was once nationally ranked in both sports — also competed in the trials in 2012, only to be ousted in the first round.

“I did I pretty well, considering I had a $45 bat, and they had expensive equipment,” Guilfoil told KMBC Kansas City.

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Althought Guilfoil didn’t make the team travelling to London, his competing in the Olympic trials meant that, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee, he was an official Olympic athlete for 2012.

Though a lot has changed since Guilfoil first took up the sport at the age of 13. Not least among them: “The balls are $2.50 now,” he remarked.

The U.S. table tennis trials are set to take place February 4-6 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

“I need to practice more,” Guilfoil resolved.