The BWF's annual major awards were released, and Chen Yufei, the tokyo Olympic women's singles champion and Chinese mainland, was selected as the best female athlete of the year, causing controversy.
On December 3, Beijing time, the BWF announced the 2020-2021 Best Male and Female Athletes, the Best Combination of the Year, and Arcellon, Dai Ziying, Polly/Lahayu were elected respectively.
As soon as the results were published, many netizens said that they were surprised by Chen Yufei's failure.
Due to the large number of events that have been forced to cancel in 2020, the BWF does not conduct the best of the year. Therefore, the judging of this year's awards will extend the time span from November 1, 2019 to October 31, 2021.
However, in its announcement in November, the BWF made it clear that "the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are the main judging criteria".
Chen Yufei performed well at this year's Tokyo Olympics, winning the gold medal with a victory over Dai Ziying from Chinese Taipei in the women's singles final.
Meanwhile, starting November 1, 2019, she has won four singles titles in all Open tournaments.
They are the 2019 Fuzhou Open Badminton Championships Women's Singles Champion, the 2019 Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships Women's Singles Champion, the 2019 World Tour Finals Women's Singles Champion and the 2020 Malaysia Masters Badminton Masters Women's Singles Champion.
After the Olympic Games, Chen Yufei also won the "2021 Sudirman Cup" and "2020 Uber Cup" team championships with the Chinese team.
On the other hand, Dai Ziying only won the women's singles title in the 2020 World Tour Finals and the 2020 All England Open in this cycle.
Although the latter is now ranked no. 1 in the world, not a single world champion (Olympic Games, World Championships, Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, etc.) is included in the voting cycle.
Many netizens believe that Chen Yufei was defeated in the case of obviously superior results, which made people a little puzzled.
Olympic results are the main criterion for judging, why "all other awards are Olympic champions, only the best female athletes are not".
In this annual best selection, a total of seven athletes in the Chinese mainland were nominated, of which only Qu Zimo was elected as the best male athlete with disabilities.
Best Female Athlete Nomination: Chen Yufei; Best Male Athlete Nomination: Wang Yilu; Best Group Nomination: Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping.
Best Female Paralympic Athlete Nominations: Cheng Hefang and Liu Yutong; Best Male Athlete with Disability Nominations: Qu Zimo (elected); Best Disabled Team Nominations: Mai Jianpeng/Qu Zimo.
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