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Joseph O'Rourke
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A possible counterexample?:
           Triangle
The tetrahedron is nearly a flat rectangle (red), and the ellipse $E$ nearly fills it. Then I don't see how to enclose $E$ in a triangle that remains in the ball. Not a proof, I know...

Joseph O'Rourke
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