The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are approaching, and on May 11, 2024, Beijing time, the International Federation announced all the quota places for this year's Paris Olympics, with 35 quotas each in men's singles and women's singles already locked, and in doubles, 16 pairs of pairs each. Fortunately, the Chinese national badminton team was also the only country among all delegations to have won the full quota of the participants.
The Chinese team will be represented in the men's singles by Shi Yuqi and Li Shifeng, who are second only to Viktor Axelsen in the latest Paris Olympic seeding list. The second seed is also expected to avoid Axelsen. And the two players are also very likely to meet in the final. This season, Axelsen's performance in the Thomas Cup is a mess and his best result in other events this season is only the semi-finals of Axelsen, who is also suffering from injuries, and he also has a hunch that he is likely to be like Kento Momota before, due to injuries and his combat effectiveness is also declining, and his position as the world's No. 1 this season is also in jeopardy, and he is likely to be surpassed by Shi Yuqi, who has never won an Olympic gold medal before and has not even won a gold medal in the World Championships. Just won the Sudirman Cup and Thomas Cup with the Chinese team, and now he is starting again, personally, his ability is also expected to continue to improve, and Shi Yuqi is also looking forward to scoring for the first time. The final of the Olympic Games was also the top of the competition.
In the men's doubles, there is also the veteran Liu Yuchen who aims to win the championship, in the Tokyo Olympics, the tears and the old partner Li Junhui missed the great opportunity to reach the top, and now it is the partner Ou Xuanyi who is injured and injured, Liu Yuchen is also a decline in combat effectiveness, in the final battle of the Paris Olympics, he held a key seat to make his Paris Olympic points ranked eighth, and it was also squeezed out, a pair of Indonesian combinations. And Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi are also looking forward to standing on the last shift in the last Olympic journey and making up for their regrets.
In addition, Li Shifeng in men's singles and Wang Chang and Leung Wai Keng in men's doubles are also looking forward to making a breakthrough in the Olympic Games. In the men's singles list, Corden, who has won the semi-finals of the Olympic Games, also participated in the matchup of this competition, and the Guatemalan player is also looking forward to playing the dark horse again in the Olympic arena. In addition, women's doubles Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan are also looking forward to winning the Olympic gold medal for the first time. And Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong are also looking forward to completing the Grand Slam of their careers. And the fact that South Korea has only one player in the men's singles cannot hide the fact that they are in a slump.