Ok. I repeated the sequence again with your observations. Yes, agree. But what eagle eyes / ears you have. It was fraction of a second. At least in the NBC broadcast. I would never have caught it.
Just now saw the results. What in the world happened ?. When I watched his first group match, i thought his defense was not as strong as before but never ever in my dream thought he would lose to second level Korean player. Wow. Starting from the beginning, I thought shuttle was so fast in this Olympics. Anybody felt it?.
Yes the shuttle moves fast in this tournament, its hard(er) to play defense other than his reaction looks quite slow. (eye problem?). Lifts are quite often long as well.
Grp A (with CYF as 1st seed) and grp P (TTY as 2nd seed), the qualifier from these 2 groups get a bye in round of 16.
as i recall the very first day the shuttle wasn't fast .....starting second day then it became a bit fast.....with many players doing simple clear but long at the backline
tontowi ahmad in interview about 3 weeks ago.... you know....the loud mouth wimp that shouts louder than he can smash......
Or all-Indonesian or all-Chinese? Anything is possible at this point.. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk
Probably the worst feeling an athlete can have. Losing in his home Olympic in front of empty stands being WR1 and losing to World Rank what player, its really much worst than Ronald beat LinDan. I can say that there are not many rank 1 individual player in Japan Olympic squad, not even OsakaNaomi (except maybe Judo which they did well so far and Karate). So i think in the whole Japan squad, he has the worst nightmare.
Yeah who knows? He might pull a Shon Seung Mo and get a silver or pull a Ji Xinpeng and get a gold. I hope not because I want to see Viktor vs Ginting in the final.
It depends how you look at it. Sindhu with so many major silvers and bronzes , will you pick her over TTY who has zero major medals (has AG gold though) but won almost all tour events ? LCW has been consistent throughout for so many years, winning numerous tour titles and many major silvers. It needs more than just 1 OG Gold to surpass his achievements, Viktor and Ginting need to show more wins, consistency, major medals plus longevity then we can talk.