I really don't think so, AlanY... China will need every single medal they may earn incl. this bronze, especially when USA treats all the medals relatively the same, almost colorless, even the many bronze counting may exceed the shiny HOLY metals of gold and silver
It is very unlikely a fixed games. LXR is overall a better player than WX and this is reflected in this games especially at the crucial moment. LXR not only has aggressive smashes, her mental strength is superb.
they still have to play one more match after this. One fights for gold; the other fight for bronze. just my opinion, feel free to disagree. But G1 definitely wasn't fixed. I agree.
So far US has the over all medals count in their favour and led CHN 110-100 even in Beijing, ofcourse GOLD counts more but since US lost it they claimed Hey what if we have lower no. of GOLDS we still got more medals then you... Beat that!!
I think they would take bronze seriously too....a 1,2,3 is quite a prize, plus whoever is in the medal match wouldnt want to lose.... I think it doesnt matter who plays saina, they will win. Saina played ok today, but couldnt keep the intensity of WYH....saina certainly was moving well.