Badminton
The badminton competition for the 2024 Olympic Games was held in Paris from 27 July to 5 August. A total of five sets of medals were awarded, with the Chinese team winning two gold and three silver. The Olympics reports on the results and heroes of badminton.
Asian and especially Chinese badminton players are traditionally considered the leading badminton players, but their hegemony in singles was broken in Tokyo 2020 by Denmark's Viktor Axelsen, who did not lose a single set. What's more, the 30-year-old Viktor repeated his dominant style (still without losing a single game) at the Olympic tournament in Paris, where he was seeded second.
In the final he was literally outclassed by the 2023 World Champion Kunlawut Widitsam from Thailand. The final score (21:11, 21:11) simply shows Axelsen's huge superiority, although Widitsam can be proud of himself at the end of the tournament. In the quarter-finals he defeated the world number one, China's Shi Yuqi (21:12, 21:10).
Let us add that Axelsen, who once learned Mandarin to learn badminton wisdom from the Chinese, became only the second two-time Olympic singles champion in history. Before him, only Lin Dan managed it in 2008 and 2012. Today, Viktor could be aiming for a hat-trick of gold medals.
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