A Particle of Boredom

Day Four (12.08.2008)

Badminton

Lee Chong Wei, the second seed here behind China’s reigning world champion Lin Dan, as expected, booked himself into the last eight with an effortless 21-5, 21-7 win over Lithuania’s Kestutis Navickas in the third round this morning. He who is expected to be Malaysia’s first Olympic Gold medal prospect will face Indonesia’s Sony Dwi Kuncoro in a quarterfinal round in the Olympics badminton men’s singles on Thursday.

Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong swept into the quarterfinals with superb performance by beating  Shintaro Ikeda and Shuichi Sakamota 21-12, 21-16 in the pre-quarterfinals round. Wong Choong Hann bid farewell to the Olympics in defeat after Taiwan’s Hsieh Yu Hsing ended his third and final Olympic outing 14-21, 21-17, 21-18, a day after the Malaysian closed the door on Athens games gold medallist Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia who also played his last Olympics.

Fourth seeded Choong Tan Fook and Lee Wan Wah were upset by South Korea’s unranked Lee Haejin and Hwang Jiman in three games.Tan Fook and Wan Wah fended off their rivals in the first game just barely and the Koreans came back to force a decider with their fast attacking speed to wrap up 20-22, 21-13, 21-16.

Sailing
Sailor Kevin Lim got off to a foul start when he was disqualified from the opening race for going over the starting line when the laser event got underway in Qingdao today. He came back in the second race to finish 24th with 2.58 penalty points.