Lin Dan claims Badminton singles Gold

Chinese shuttler Lin Dan claimed the Men's Singles title at the Beijing Olympics, beating Lee Chong-wei from Malaysia 21-12, 21-8 in the final.

China's Chen Jin beat Lee Hyun-il from the Republic of Korea 21-16,12-21, 21-14 in the bronze medal match.

Koreans took over Indonesians

World No. 1 pair Liliyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia failed utterly in the final of Mixed Doubles Badminton final in Beijing to World No. 10 Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yong-dae of the Republic of Korea.


The final gone in 39 minutes with a 21-11, 21-17 ROK victory, turned out to be a disastrous ousting for the heavily favored World No. 1, who dominated the event in recent years. On the previous day, the ROK's two Lees stunned another Indonesian pair, third-seeded Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa, in a thrilling three-game match to qualify for the finals.
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Zhang Ning wins badminton women's singles Olympic gold

Zhang Ning beat Xie Xingfang 21-12, 10-21 and 21-18 to take the women's badminton singles gold medal in an all-Chinese final at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Zhang Ning

Xie Xingfang

Earlier, Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia beat Chinese Lu Nan 11-21, 21-13 and 21-15 to take the bronze medal.

Maria Kristin Yulianti

Lu Nan

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Saina Lost to her Indonesian counterpart today

The 18-year-old Indian went down 28-26 14-21 15-21 in the thrilling contest against her world number 16 rival.

However, unfazed by the initial setback Yulianti equalised in the next game, helped to a large extent by Saina's mistakes.

The decider looked like going Saina's way as she led 11-5 at one point but nerves got the better of the world number 15 Indian in the closing stages as Yulianti equalised before racing away with the game and the match.




















In the men's competition, Anup Sridhar has already made his exit, losing in the round of 16 of the men's singles event.

India's chances of getting a medal now lies entirely on Paes-Bhupathi pair, Sania Mirza withdrew from the tournament because of injury!

Saina entered Quarter Finals..India's hopes high...

India's ace shuttler,18 tr old, Saina Nehwal is just one win away from ensuring another individual medal for India after she smashed away the fourth seed Chen Wang of HongKong to move into the quarterfinals of the women's singles badminton event at the Olympics on Monday.

Saina, ranked 15, defeated Wang 21-19 11-21 21-11 in a grueling pre-quarterfinal contest at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium here.

After first two easy encounters, Saina had to bring her best to get the better of World No. 5 Wang. Both the shuttlers were neck and neck in the first game till 19 points when Saina stepped up the accelerator to seal the game with two consecutive points.

However, Wang took full advantage in the second game and level the scores. But came back strongly in the decider and raced on to 6-0 lead. She was also helped by Wang's high number of unforced errors in the decider.

From there onwards there was no looking back for Saina as she booked her last eight place with ease with some elegant placement and immaculate drop shots.