Germany team will depart for Korea on July 31 to practice for one week before going to Beijing on August 6...
Indonesia team will leave on August 4 directly to Beijing. Some coaches will not go like Aryono ( WD coach)
PBSI has cancelled Bali trip for their Olympic players....may be PBSI thinks that some of them have been too relax...hehe
Due to restriction of airlines regarding the weight or extra allowances, some players have been told by their federation to pack their extra belongings and to be shipped to Beijing by this week
Danish team will leave on the 27th for a 1-week training camp in Hong Kong. Going to Beijing on the 5th.
Malaysia badminton team will leave on august 5th..directly to beijing.. and they have also made a request to the organisers to train at the competition venue from Aug 6 but still have no answers yet.
malaysia team have already made court bookings at an alternative venue in case they do not get to train at the competition venue immediately after they arrive.
And the U.S. team... ...leaving on the...uhm...uhm...uhm..............................harimau, or anyone close to the U.S. squad, do you guys know when??..
MAS will send many people there. cause we have the budget..... the badminton event start on 09/08, few days before for some warm ups.... most will be there before 06/08. dont tell me, USA only arrives 10/08........
Team Malaysia will leave August 5. They will send 1 pairs of sparring doubles and 1 sparring singles there. Zakry and Fuzzy will not be joining. Hoon Thien How and partner will be going instead. Tan Chun Seang will join in as well.
From Media Indonesia today, Taufik Hidayat got illnes and took rest in Pondok Indah Hospital since Tuesday, indicated the illnes is "Demam Berdarah" or dengue fever