What do they have in common?

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  1. AlanY

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    #1 AlanY, Jan 25, 2012
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    AlanY Regular Member

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    with all the sport person over the world for all sports, BBC named 2 badminton players out of the 50 altogether.
    and most likely the 2 badminton title contenders they named wouldn't be the No 1 seed at the Games.
    So, does the BBC knows something that we don't?
     
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    Well they know that Lin Dan is probably come good and beat Lee Chong Wei for the final time in London in August...

    Saina Nehwal is just a crazy choice. Should have picked a Wang, but then again I don't think they wanted to pick two people from the same country...
     
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    Of course we don’t have the numbers for the forthcoming Olympics yet. We can base upon the Beijing Games 2008, there were a total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events. For BBC to pick 50 winners out of the 10k+ athletes with 2 from badminton, as a badminton player/supporter I’m pleased. Very very pleased indeed.
     
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    LCW and Wang Yihan must be disappointed, despite rank no 1, they are not on BBC list
     
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    They chose Lin Dan because he's cool and has the potential to create newsworthy controversy on court.
    They chose Saina Nehwal because she's photogenic and comes from the old Empire.

    To the BBC it is probably of secondary importance that LD has good chance of actually winning and SN not so much.
     
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    Perhaps BBC doesn't know much about badminton, especially in WS department..:D
     
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    rather funni choice by bbc

    anyway... title contenders can refer to more than 1 person...

    for
    MS.. it could be the following

    Lin Dan
    Lee Chong Wei
    Chen Long
    etc..

    WS.. it could be the following

    Wang Xin
    Wang Yi Han
    Wang Shi Xian
    Sainal Newal
    etc...

    its just talking.... and can be out of the air oso..
     
    #8 a|extan, Jan 25, 2012
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    would otherwise have been difficult to pick one from India.
     
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