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The German Team has been nominated:

Men
Jörg Roßkopf
Timo Boll
Torben Wosik
Peter Franz
Lars Hielscher
Bastian Steger (reserve)

Women
Jie Schöpp
Nicole Struse
Elke Schall
Tanja Hain-Hofmann*
Katrin Meyerhöfer*
Jessica Göbel*
*only 2 of these 3 players will make the final team, depending on their performace at the Croatian Open and the WTTC-training-camp.

Here's the real interesting news:
Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth has been deliberately left out because of mysterious 'disciplinary' problems even though he has been playing quite well lately (he was eliminated yesterday in the quarters of the German Nationals, but so was Hielscher).

For the sake of discussion, do most people agree that it's a good idea to include 'subjective' factors like motivation and discipline in the selection process? I could imagine potential problems with this... Larry: do you remember cases where someone was left out of the US Team because of something like this?

Another question: how come Christina Fischer, the Women's Champion, is not on the team? is she retiring from competition?