Venue : Riocentro Pavilion 4, Rio de Janeiro-BRA Schedule : 11-20 August 2016 Rio Olympic Website : https://www.rio2016.com/en/badminton BWF Olympic Website : http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/ Full Draw link : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/index.php?threads/the-draw-in-full.165718/ BWF Live Score : http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/live/ Tournamentsoftware link : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=3400A457-E0A4-4C87-89CA-C9A6CF1B2C0D Live Streaming & Live TV Broadcast information : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/for...ing-and-tv-broadcast-for-rio-olympics.165856/ Rio de Janeiro time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=1307&forma=Find Time 2012 London Olympic Games Medalists : http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/results/2077/london-2012-olympic-games/podium Men's Singles Gold - Lin Dan (CHN) Silver - Lee Chong Wei (MAS) Bronze - Chen Long (CHN) Women's Singles Gold - Li Xuerui (CHN) Silver - Wang Yihan (CHN) Bronze - Saina Nehwal (IND) Men's Doubles Gold - Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng (CHN) Silver - Mathias Boe/Carsten Mogensen (DEN) Bronze - Jung Jae Sung/Lee Young Dae (KOR) Women's Doubles Gold - Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) Silver - Mizuki Fujii/Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) Bronze - Valeria Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS) Mixed Doubles Gold - Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) Silver - Xu Chen/Ma Jin (CHN) Bronze - Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN) The most anticipated and much awaited tournament of 2016 for all badminton fans will kick off tomorrow, started from group stage matches, same format with London 2012. Only group winner can advance into knock-out stage in singles division while top two pairs of each group can progress into quarterfinal in doubles category. Ten-day grueling competition will offer many high quality matches and any upset may come at big event, including Olympic Games. A huge pressure for China squad to repeat clean-sweep extraordinary result as they did superbly four years ago in Wembley Arena. Men’s singles top three contenders, London 2012 gold medalist Lin Dan-silver medalist Lee Chong Wei -bronze medalist Chen Long will shoot their goal to be the best in Rio. Chinese superstar Lin will create an unprecendented achievement, to become first shuttler who creates hat-trick at Olympic Arena. Malaysian hero Lee has another huge target to win first ever gold medal for his country after failed twice in 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games and two-time World Champion Chen who occupies second seed here will hope to open new chapter in Rio after series of uninspiring performances in last ten months, not yet to win any title since Denmark Premier last October. Two Danish rivals, Viktor Axelsen and Jan O Jorgensen pose dangerous stumbling block to deny their more fancied opponent, Jorgensen is slated to meet Lin Dan at last eight and the rising star Axelsen has Chen Long as his possible semifinal foe. Other familiar names complete top eight seeds are Chou Tien Chen, Son Wan Ho and Tommy Sugiarto. Both Li Xuerui and Wang Yihan, gold and silver medalist in Olympic Games last edition will against all odds to present another gold for China who’s dominating Women’s Singles Gold since Sydney 2000. From London to Rio, the constellation of badminton Women’s singles have changed tremendously. Spanish hot-shot Carolina Marin, Thailand prodigy Ratchanok Intanon, Indian jewel Saina Nehwal who grabbed bronze in London, Japanese young sensation Nozomi Okuhara, Korean number one Sung Ji Hyun and Chinese Taipei talent Tai Tzu Ying trouble the Chinese regularly in major tournaments and maybe it’s time to stop China gold medal in this category. The Olympic Champion Li is scripted to meet Nehwal in last eight, Marin will up against Sung while second seed Wang will find first real test, TPE 8th seed Tai TY. An interesting fact about men’s doubles discipline, both Korea and Indonesia rule the gold alternately since it’s inception at Barcelona 1992 until Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng broke that record four years ago. Korea won two golds through Park JB/Kim MS (1992), Ha TK/Kim DM (2004). Indonesia is known to produce world class pair as they claimed three gold through this department, Mainaky/Subagja (1996), Gunawan/Wijaya (2000) and Kido/Setiawan (2008). Based on that tradition, top seed Lee YD/Yoo YS and second seed Ahsan/Setiawan should be the strong favourite to continue their nation glory in Rio 2016. The defending champion, 33 years old Fu Haifeng renew his mission, this time partnered with younger teammate Zhang Nan to be China best hopeful to taste another victory in Olympic Games. Third seed Kim GJ/Kim SR and London 2012 silver medalist Danish combination Boe/Mogensen should be another possible candidate to pocket Rio medal. China women’s doubles pair only slipped once to top Olympic podium when badminton began its debut 24 years ago in Barcelona as Korean duo Chung Soo-young/Hwang Hye-young defeated Guan Weizhen/Nong Qunhua in emotional final, that nightmare may happen in Riocentro Pavilion 4 as their two representatives aren’t invincible as before. Former Olympic Champion Yu Yang paired up with fresh faceTang Yuanting will be China backbone to keep their supremacy, as defending champion Tian/Zhao have been replaced by Luo twin sisters. Reigning All England champion Matsutomo/Takahashi, 2014 Incheon Asian Games winner Maheswari/Polii, Dane veterans Pedersen/Juhl and two Korean pairs Jung KE/Shin SC, Chang YN/Lee SH have high potential to deny China's gold medal target. Both silver and bronze medalist of London games, Xu/Ma and Fischer/Pedersen respectively are drawn in Group C that called group of death as two formidable pairs also join them, Dubai Superseries Finals champion The Adcocks and Polish experienced combination Mateusiak/Zieba. Title-holder Zhang/Zhao will start their campaign, meet Germany Fuchs/Michels while their closest rival in group A, All England winner Jordan/Susanto face tricky test, Hong Kong’s Lee CH/Chau HW. Korean sole representatives in mixed doubles category, Ko SH/Kim HN have relatively easy draw and hope to emulate their predecessors, Kim DM/Gil YA, Lee YD/Lee HJ who nailed gold in Atlanta 1996 and Beijing 2008 respectively. Indonesian aces Ahmad/Natsir who failed to bag any medal in London will redeem their London sad ending to produce stellar performance in Rio. *DAY-1 Match Highlights : - Pedersen/Juhl (DEN) v Luo Ying /Luo Yu (CHN) - Jordan/Susanto (INA) v Lee CH/CHau HW (HKG) - Chai B/Hong W (CHN) v Endo/Hayakawa (JPN) - Ivanov/Sozonov (RUS) v Lee SM/TSai CH (TPE) - Viktor Axelsen (DEN) v Boonsak Ponsana (THA) - Xu C/Ma J (CHN) v Adcock/Adcock (GBR) *DAY-1 ORDER OF PLAY (08.00am local time, 3 courts) => http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...00A457-E0A4-4C87-89CA-C9A6CF1B2C0D&d=20160811
Even day one has some promising matches. For the DEN-CHN and CHN-JPN matches, this feels cruel, but I'm ready to be entertained.
Lin Dan of China will win The Third Grand Slam of his career if he wins ~ Olympics (Rio De Janeiro 2016 ) Completed ~ BWF World Championships (2013 World Championships,Guangzhou) ~ Asian Games (2014 Asian Games,Incheon) ~ Super Series Premier (Yonex All England 2016) ~ Super Series (Yonex Open Japan 2015) ~ Grand Prix Gold (China Masters 2016) ~ Grand Prix (Yonex Rio Open 2015)
Wow both the Kims doing a good hob now. Both playing a fast attacking game leading 14-10 over the Polish MD.
