Saturday, August 30, 2008

Lu Lan Profile

Lu Lan is a China women single badminton player. She was born on 17 October, 1987 in China. Lu Lan is the second best women badminton athlete in the world. The first rank is placed by her teammates Xie Xingfang. Now Lu Lan Placed rank 2.

In 2007 she won the Denmark Super Series and in November she reached the third place in the BWF World Ranking. In 2008 Beijing Olympic Games she lost to Xie Xingfang 21-7, 10-21, 12-21 in the semi-finals and was then upset by Maria Kristin Yulianti from Indonesia 21-11, 13-21, 15-21 in the bronze medal

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Bill Gates Likes Badminton

Badminton is not a popular sport in America. But who tough Bill Gates can like it. Bill Gates showed sitting in the VIP Seat Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium. He and his wife saw a match between Bao Chunlai from china and Kevin Gordon from Guatemala. The match was won by Bao Chunlai with straight set 21-17 and 21-16

"It was great. I was very impressed," Gates, who stepped down from daily operations at the software maker in June, told reporters.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Indonesian men double badminton player, Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan finally won the gold the gold medal in the olympic games. They got the winning from Chinese badminton athletes, Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng.
In the game which held on August 16th 2008, Markis and hendra won through a tight game. Even Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng could won the first set. But The Indonesian badminton athletes could get the other two sets. they won by 12-21, 21-11, and 21-16.