Yes. You can see some olympic champions Superseries circuit performance dropping like sweat. Example is Chen Long and Tontowi/Natsir.
LOL, glad that tennis fans don't think like you-- or Federer and Nadal would have left a trail of bodies at the Australian Open last month....
Kucch bhi bol lo, main nahi manunga, all England is more important than Olympics. Main chutiya hoon, chutiya hi rahunga.
Even if they are younger and have stamina, there will be some players with vast repertoire of skills and vast experience.
Akane did it. She held her nerves in crucial moments. Sun Yu was too erratic at the end. That didn't help her.
18-15, then 20-19 , then 20-all and finally lost it 20-22 , Sun Yu is a ...I don't know what else to say