In the mixed doubles, the national team has two strong opponents, the world's No. 1 "IELTS" pair Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and the world's No. 2 "Phoenix" pair Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, whose tacit cooperation and tactical changes will make the mixed doubles event an important gold point for the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the national feather team qualified for the full quota.
How hard is it to get a full quota place for badminton at an Olympic Games? In the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, badminton officially became an Olympic sport, and the badminton singles event of this event was full of 3 players, and the requirements were very high: all 3 people must be ranked in the top eight in the world. At that time, China's No. 3 women's singles player was a rookie from the Zhejiang team born in 1974, and she was ranked ninth in the world, missing out on a ticket to the Barcelona Olympics.
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In fact, not only the Barcelona Olympics, but also the next four Olympic Games, there has been no national team in the badminton field that has not won a full quota, and the difficulty of playing a full quota can be seen. In the past 20 years, the national team has won gold, silver and bronze medals in women's doubles at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but neither the men's doubles nor the mixed doubles have reached the full quota of three pairs. In the 2004 Olympic Games, Indonesian stars Tawfik and Sony won the gold and bronze medals in the men's singles respectively, and their records were good enough, but only two of them appeared in the men's singles at that time. If you want to have 3 people or 3 pairs of groups to participate in each of the 5 individual events, it is really difficult, it is difficult to get to the sky.
In 2012, the Chinese badminton team made a historic breakthrough in the points competition of the London Olympic Games, winning the full quota for all five events in one fell swoop, becoming the first team in history to complete this miracle. Everyone is familiar with Lin Dan, Chen Long and other good players are all listed, and the London Olympics staged the feat of winning five individual gold medals, creating the legend of the national feather "hardware store". In the 2016 Rio Olympics points competition, the national feather still won the full quota, but in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the national feather failed to perform three consecutive times to get the full quota. This year is the third time that the national team has participated in the national badminton competition, and the third time since badminton became an Olympic sport 32 years ago.
Strength is online, Guoyu sword aims to revitalize the "hardware store"
Last year, Guoyu achieved three consecutive championships in the Su Cup at home. Since the beginning of the Jiachen Dragon year, the main players of the Chinese badminton team have won a number of honors in high-level competitions. Judging from the recent state and results of the competition, the strength of this year's national feather players is online, and they are expected to reproduce the glory of "hardware".
In men's singles, Shi Yuqi and Li Shifeng have been in hot form recently and are expected to bring a breakthrough for the Chinese team to win the gold medal. Shi Yuqi, in particular, has seen a significant improvement in his form at the end of 2023 since suffering a torn ankle ligament at the 2019 Indonesia Open. At the BWF World Finals held in December 2023 and the Malaysia Open in January this year, Shi Yuqi defeated the defending Tokyo Olympic champion and current world No. 1 Denmark's Viktor Axelsen in two consecutive stops, and then won two consecutive tournaments in India and France. Shi Yuqi has a win rate of 89.3% in 28 matches this year, and with men's singles world No. 1 Axelsen losing more and more matches, Shi has become the best men's singles player in the world in 2024. If he can continue his current good form, Shi Yuqi will become the strongest contender for the men's singles title at the Paris Olympics.
In women's singles, Tokyo Olympic defending champion Chen Yufei is firmly ranked second in the women's singles world, and she has not tasted defeat as the national feather in the just-concluded Uber Cup. He Bingjiao, ranked sixth in the world, broke through her demons at this year's Asian Championships, defeated world No. 1 An Xiying, and ended her six-game losing streak against An Xiying, which is also gaining momentum.
In the doubles event, the strength of the Chinese team should not be underestimated. Men's Doubles Olympic No. 1 Leung Wei Keng/Wang Chang and No. 8 Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi both have good fighting power in the men's doubles field, among which the "Liang Wang" combination is participating in the Olympics for the first time, and Liu Yuchen is bound to do his best to attack the gold medal this time with the regret of winning silver in Tokyo three years ago.
In terms of women's doubles strength, the "Fan Chen" pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan continue to sit firmly at the top of the world, their sophisticated style of play and big heart far superior to the average player are the key to winning the match, and the other group of women's doubles Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning also performed well in the Asian Championships, Uber Cup and other competitions.
In the mixed doubles, the national team has two strong opponents, the world's No. 1 "IELTS" pair Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and the world's No. 2 "Phoenix" pair Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping, whose tacit cooperation and tactical changes will make the mixed doubles event an important gold point for the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics.