Rio Qualifications - Final Week

Well, I agreed with you on diversity but not cost. These countries associations can manage to send their players to all tournaments on all corners of earth but cost is an issue in the Olympics??

 

give me that boring game any day rather than the potential exicting match between the world no 1 Chen Long and the last qualifier world no 133 Gobinathan of Australia. l'm sure the whole of the aussie nation will gluded to the set in the middle of the night for the match.
promotion of badminton to the world's audience, job done.

 

Who wants to see Christopher Kamlendu of Uganda in Olympics when there are legendary shuttlers like Tian Houwei.

China should be allowed to have three players qualified for the Olympics. Hey BWF,it's still not too late.

 

Still don't make sense. Since the host country has already incurred much cost in hosting the Olympics like building of the stadiums and infrastructures, it would only make sense if more people are sent so that the host country can profits from the returns.

 

olympics is like that. its quite similar to the football world cup where there are representative from every region. just have to bear with it. lol

 

Hope BWF is not making the game boring.

 

you have already admitted boring is acceptable. what a way to promote badminton.

 

I am sure badminton is in safe hands with such competence bwf members.

 

football is a different animal alltogether as it's the most popular sport in the world. believe it ir not even the minor teams' supporters wouldnt mind to watch their teams slaughtered by the like of Brazil or Germany,

badminton is not and will not get to that, unfortunately

 

Highlander.... you make sense.....

 

I was at the 2012 Olympics for badminton and there was this Ugandan bloke playing an Indian bloke and the whole crowd were behind the Ugandan fellow, and even my dad said it was odd seeing tap Ugandan player play. Neutrals root for the underdog, a casual watcher won't understand who Chen long is.

Also, the ethics of Olympics is very different to other international tournaments. It's about countries participating and performing rather than the individual like in ordinary bwf tournaments

 

Hcyong， you don't make sense.....cost of hosting and organizing og is taken care of by rio, brasil.........participating countries only need to pay for costs of it's own athletes (and likely a rio fee or levy).....

 

I look at it from different perspective! It's a big irony that swimming is still offering so many medals while the IOC is busy cutting the other sports. Perhaps few other sports also have too many medals, time to rationalize all of them. It's ever arguable among those many sports played in OG (42 sports in 2016 Rio OG), which ones are really popular which ones are not. How to measure the popularity of any particular sport? From the medal distribution among the five color rings (count in all medal colors not just the golden ones)? Or from the number of viewership? Or from the number of viewership among the major economies, so it comes with purchasing power? Is it true that badminton is really so miserable that its participation in OG depends on the mercy of IOC? How to accurately measure all of these factors? Whatever Nielsen's rating numbers say? Perceptions, perceptions (the power to create and influence such perceptions) and power of money and lobbies play the most crucial factors here, imo.

 

Legendary Tian Houwei !. Ha ha. Good imagination. Had he won atleast one title after 2013, there would be some meaning in calling him that way. Is it not?

 

Sadly we won't get the dream LD and LCW final for this olympics but if they meet in the SFs, I'm certain it will be another fantastic game

 

I thought it was based on the rankings as of 5th of may? And traditionally, the 2nd and 3rd seed meet in the semi whilst the 1st and 4th meet in the other semi, so that the 1st and 2nd seed will never meet until the very end