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Taipei, Feb. 4 Most of China's top badminton players will compete at the annual Badminton Asian Championships being held in Taipei this year in April, the secretary-general of the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association said Monday.
Lin Dan, the men's singles gold medalist at last year's Olympic Games in London, and women's singles gold medalist Li Xuerui will lead the Chinese team, said Tsai Hung-peng.
Li is currently the top ranked women's singles player in the world, while Lin, currently ranked 14th in men's singles, also won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Other top name Chinese players scheduled to compete are Chen Jin, the men's singles gold medalist at the 2010 World Championships, Wang Yihan, the women's singles silver medalist in London, and Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing, the world's top-ranked women's doubles team, Tsai said.
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 Score one for Indonesia: After some uncertainty, it turns out that badminton, the country’s best sport, will be a major part of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games.
The sport had been dropped from the Games because host Myanmar said it lacked the proper facilities.
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DATUK Seri Nadzmi Salleh has to contend with another challenger for the presidency of the Badminton World Federation after Denmark’s Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen announced his candidacy on Thursday.
Hoyer Larsen, who stunned the badminton world when he won the men’s singles gold in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, is the current Badminton Europe (BEC) president.
He was elected to BEC in 2010 and also serves on the Denmark Olympic Committee.
Hoyer Larsen said he was encouraged to run by several colleagues from all over the world after current president Kang Young Joong said he would not seek re-election.
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 BAM'S LATEST: Indonesian coach ready to help Kien Keat-Boon Heong recapture the form that use to worry their opponents
MANY have tried and failed since Rexy Mainaky but newly-hired coach Paulus Firman believes he can turn former Asian Games champions Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong into an effectiv… |
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 THE Malaysian sporting community has lost another legend, badminton great Datuk Eddy Choong, at the age of 82. News of his death came as a shock to many fans.
Many of us are still mourning the loss of another badminton great, Datuk Punch Gunalan, and now Eddy is gone.
Eddy was an inspirationa… |
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