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All The Best to our Australian Badminton Team @ Beijing 2008 !!!

Just yesterday, Monday 23-Jun-2008, our Australian player, Eugenia Tanaka, told me that she has been training hard for Australia's first medal in the Beijing Olympics Games in August.

Then I found this article.

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Badminton squad realistic on Beijing medal chances

By Olympics reporter Karen Barlow
Posted Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:26pm AEST
Updated Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:45pm AEST

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Burgeoning profile... Badminton is now one of Asia's most popular sports. (Getty Images: Bryn Lennon)

In Victorian times, it was a genteel game for ladies. Now badminton is one of the most popular sports in Asia.

It is the world's fastest racquet game and its champions are treated like rock stars by their fans.

Australia is having a crack at its first ever badminton medal when it sends a team to the Beijing Olympics Games in August.

At their training camp in Melbourne, things are deceptively quiet, though the goose feathers which make up the best shuttlecocks are flying.

When they are struck the shuttlecocks first rocket, then quickly slow. First time Olympian Tania Luiz explains how they work.

"The shuttle is constantly spinning. The way the shuttle is made it spins in one way and depending on the conditions of the hall you are playing in you can have winds or air conditioning or whatever that's making the shuttle float or go faster at certain heights or slower," Luiz said.

"I think the fastest we have clocked a shuttle is about 332 kilometres an hour. So say good bye to Andy Roddick, it is all badminton," she said.

As for Luiz's speed, she can only estimate.

"I have never actually done the tests so I'd say I'd be over 250 kilometres an hour," she said.

The quiet of training is broken only by squeaky shoes on the floor and the whiz and whack of the racquets hitting the shuttles.

But Luiz says competition will be a very different affair in China, where badminton is one of the top sports.

"It is everything," she said. "They are gods over there pretty much. It is just huge.

"It is bigger than anything I have seen in here, especially because it is indoors as well. It is just so compact.

"The atmosphere is right there and of course you are right near the crowds, you feel everything - you feel vibration from the crowd while you are playing, you really do."

Fledgling event

Badminton has only been a Olympic sport since the 1992 Barcelona Games.

It is physically demanding so there is intense training in the lead-up to the Games.

Doubles player Eugenia Tanaka says, like any elite sport, it curbs the players' social lives.

"We are training every day, twice a day. We have to eat healthy and run to keep our fitness," she said.

"When you study and play at the same time it is really hard. We have to make sacrifices."

As well as the team from host country China, the teams to beat are Malaysia and Indonesia.

Head coach Ricky Yu says the young Australian team will have a difficult road ahead and that this time around, it is a learning experience.

"We are looking for the future. I think it is very good for them," he said.

Luiz is also realistic about the chances for Australia's first medal in badminton.

"It is going to be tough for us. There are 16 pairs in the doubles and we are still fairly young, the whole team that have been chosen to go over," she said.

"I think it is definitely just the most remarkable experience for us to get there, going into where we hope to make a big difference, which is the next Games."

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And Tania Luiz is also being realistic about the chances for our Australia's first medal in Olympics Badminton.

For the link: click here (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/23/2282819.htm) .

Cheers... chris@ccc
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Eugenia Tanaka? Japanese? Or something like what SBA did?

Just like USA, I think Australia has a lot of citizens with Asian blood.

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie ! Go Ozzie !

Eugenia Tanaka? Japanese? Or something like what SBA did?

she is from indonesia..she has 2 younger brothers that also play badminton

i know ricky yu (chinese name: Qi Yu)...he is a very nice coach and he used to play for china during the 90's

Eugenia Tanaka? Japanese? Or something like what SBA did?






she is from indonesia..she has 2 younger brothers that also play badminton.



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Dimplex... Thank you for answering Dato Asbullah's question.

Dato Asbullah... No, Eugenia Tanaka was not asked to come from Indonesia to play for Australia. She arrived at Melbourne when she was very young, some 6 years ago to study in Melbourne in a lower secondary high school. When I met Eugenia back in 2003, she came to our CCC Badminton Club with her father. Her whole family loves Badminton.

Cheers... chris-ccc
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Dimplex... Thank you for answering Dato Asbullah's question.

Dato Asbullah... No, Eugenia Tanaka was not asked to come from Indonesia to play for Australia. She arrived at Melbourne when she was very young, some 6 years ago to study in Melbourne in a lower secondary high school. When I met Eugenia back in 2003, she came to our CCC Badminton Club with her father. Her whole family loves Badminton.

Cheers... chris-ccc
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Chris, you need to get 'a' LCW into Australia - offer citizenship, scholarships for universities. Then Oz will get somewhere with badminton.

Chris, you need to get 'a' LCW into Australia - offer citizenship, scholarships for universities. Then Oz will get somewhere with badminton.

What Chris sais that is, Eugene Tanaka is not bought over by the Australia Badminton Association. Not like SBA bought over Ronaldo Susilo. Different case.:D:D

We r waiting for the 1st Australian to achieve success in badminton world. i.e win the SS or major tournament.

What Chris sais that is, Eugene Tanaka is not bought over by the Australia Badminton Association. Not like SBA bought over Ronaldo Susilo. Different case.:D:D

haha... this Dato always after "someone's" tail... haha... :D:p aiya... Dato, no worry lah... this susie-Lo got no time to train now coz he has found his new "partner" to replace the table tennis sweetie... haha... :p

http://www.asiaone.com/Just%2BWoman/News/Celebrities/Story/A1Story20080707-75007.html

haha... this Dato always after "someone's" tail... haha... :D:p aiya... Dato, no worry lah... this susie-Lo got no time to train now coz he has found his new "partner" to replace the table tennis sweetie... haha... :p

http://www.asiaone.com/Just%2BWoman/News/Celebrities/Story/A1Story20080707-75007.html


Better be careful when post such thing. Uncle L will detect your post and hammer you.:D:D

Kelly Poon is sweet. RS is good in girls hunting......

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie. The badminton team may not get anywhere but the Ozzie swimming team will be awesome. Go Ozzie.

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie. The badminton team may not get anywhere but the Ozzie swimming team will be awesome. Go Ozzie.



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X Ball... Yes, we are proud of our exalting Ozzie Swimming Team and we hope that they will get many medals from the Beijing Olympics 2008.

Our Australian Womens Badminton Doubles pair, Tania Luiz and Eugenia Tanaka, is only ranked 48th in the BWF World Ranking (as at 3-Jul-2008). So we must be realistic about their chances for a medal .

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X Ball... Yes, we are proud of our exalting Ozzie Swimming Team and we hope that they will get many medals from the Beijing Olympics 2008.

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Ozzie swimmers will cream them ! I am all glued to the TV on these swim events.

What Chris sais that is, Eugene Tanaka is not bought over by the Australia Badminton Association. Not like SBA bought over Ronaldo Susilo. Different case.:D:D

Hey Dato, don't continue to be so ignorant after so many attempts to drum into your head! :rolleyes: :D

Hey Dato, don't continue to be so ignorant after so many attempts to drum into your head! :rolleyes: :D

Sorry uncle. I just give example.:D:D

SINGAPORE BOLEH!

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie. The badminton team may not get anywhere but the Ozzie swimming team will be awesome. Go Ozzie.

i agree...aus has always been very strong in swimming...so many superstars in their olympic team

All The Best to our Australian Badminton Team @ Beijing 2008 !!!



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We will have 6 Australians participating in Badminton at Beijing 2008, namely;

(1) Erin Carroll
(2) Tania Luiz
(3) Eugenia Tanaka
(4) Stuart Gomez
(5) Ross Smith
(6) Glenn Warfe

All The Best to them @ Beijing 2008 !!!

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Why don't we do well in Badminton? Answer, badminton is steriotyped in Australia as being a backyard sport and a girly sport. You grab a couple of rackets, tie some string between 2 trees and away you go, a great party activity!!

I coach 10 kids up here in Darwin and we are always last in line to get court space after Basketball, Netball and even Volleyball. Most Aussie blokes won't ever pick up a badminton racket because they think it's a girly sport, they'd rather football. Until this mentallity changes we will never be competitive at badminton.

We in no way need any international players to move here and play for us because we have the talent just not the interest, money or coaches needed to compete at a higher level.

On a positive note Badminton Australia has now got a Dutch influence with the head coach being an X Danish player. Because there is that link all we need is to get Peter Gade out here when he finally retires and we might be able to build from there.

Unfortuately, even although I love badminton and fully support our Olympic hopefulls we will be lucky to get any players into round 2 in any division, I hope they prove me wrong!!

On a positive note Badminton Australia has now got a Dutch influence with the head coach being an X Danish player. Because there is that link all we need is to get Peter Gade out here when he finally retires and we might be able to build from there.

Good luck to Aussie team and hopefully PG will retires and settles down in Australia... :)

They can consider WCH also....

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All The Best to our Australian Badminton Team @ Beijing 2008 !!!
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Just yesterday, Monday 14-Jul-2008, at our training camp in Melbourne, Tania Luiz told me that they will be departing Australia for the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday, 1-Aug-2008.

However, before going to Beijing, our Australian team will be taking part in the 2008 KLRC Australian International at Ballarat. For more info about this Australian International tournament at Ballarat, click here (http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57943) .

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oh Stuart! you're going to OG!!! All the best! And beware of ghosts ya! *laughs*

Eugenia Tanaka is my sis GSSSSSS...
We didnt come here to play badminton at the first place, we came here for the education....then we found out that the competition here isnot that hard then we started playing seriously and yeah got our australian citizenship through badminton, n we didnt get something else so we not like singapore buying players from other country to play for them since they cant play badminton....i know australian badminton player would not go anywhere but we still have our uni degree compare to the indonesians or chinese that dont even go to secondary schoolll...so yeah...Get a life!!!

..you must be excited for your sis, then, TAEID71!:cool:..On that note, will you travel to the upcoming Olympics, as well??..:confused:

..you must be excited for your sis, then, TAEID71!:cool:..On that note, will you travel to the upcoming Olympics, as well??..:confused:


errr..Probably not going since uni is starting soon and job as well....i think all the flights is fully booked now....

..even the large, hunker of a plane of the A380 is fully booked, too??..:confused:..
Anyway, it's okay. Lots of people, esp. baddy fans and BCers won't be going as well....:)
*I'll try to meet & greet your sis (Eugenia Tanaka), if i have a chance to cross path with her (and the Aussie team)>>pending last minute confirmation of going, on my side..;):cool:

All the best to Stuart Gomez of NSW!

Win us gold!

Gary Tho (ex-Australia player) is currently residing in Singapore and playing (occassionally playing with us). Another Aussie lad also playing but I cant recall his name... :)

Eugenia Tanaka is my sis GSSSSSS...
We didnt come here to play badminton at the first place, we came here for the education....then we found out that the competition here isnot that hard then we started playing seriously and yeah got our australian citizenship through badminton, n we didnt get something else so we not like singapore buying players from other country to play for them since they cant play badminton....i know australian badminton player would not go anywhere but we still have our degree compare to the indonesians or chinese that dont even go to secondary schoolll...so yeah...Get a life!!!

But in China, those players are famous enough to sleep with fans and get on TIME Magazine. If that's not life, what would be?;)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825934,00.html

But in China, those players are famous enough to sleep with fans and get on TIME Magazine. If that's not life, what would be?;)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819129_1819134_1825934,00.html
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:D:D:D ZhangXi ... Thank you for the article. :D:D:D
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Gary Tho (ex-Australia player) is currently residing in Singapore and playing (occassionally playing with us). Another Aussie lad also playing but I cant recall his name... :)
is gary tho related to another australian player, jeff tho>>?????

Just yesterday, Monday 14-Jul-2008, at our training camp in Melbourne, Tania Luiz told me that they will be departing Australia for the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday, 1-Aug-2008.



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GOOD LUCK to our Australian Badminton Team flying to Beijing today.

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is gary tho related to another australian player, jeff tho>>?????

u r very sharp george... yes, they are brothers... currently, Gary is playing regularly with me... I still trying hard to beat him :crying::crying::crying: Another Aussie ex-national player is Raymond who is also playing with me... very tough guy. so far we got 2-3 aussie ex-national players and few ex-SG national and few ex-Msia state players... 1 SG national player... all tough guys...

we r still trying to bring LCW to show up and let me do my "one-time" jumping smash... :D

Side note: Sri Lanka National players also in town (SG) and their top TWO single players played against us last week. We lost to them but beat other Sri Lanka players (Not national players).

Eugenia Tanaka is my sis GSSSSSS...
We didnt come here to play badminton at the first place, we came here for the education....then we found out that the competition here isnot that hard then we started playing seriously and yeah got our australian citizenship through badminton, n we didnt get something else so we not like singapore buying players from other country to play for them since they cant play badminton....i know australian badminton player would not go anywhere but we still have our degree compare to the indonesians or chinese that dont even go to secondary schoolll...so yeah...Get a life!!!

You have been unduly influenced by reading misinformation from sources who are being too personal and biased. :rolleyes:

Most of our foreign players were brought in when they were in their early teens and specially trained and developed to represent the country when they are ready. We don't buy all of them 'ready-made' from the shelf as you are suggesting.

Like your sister, our best male player, Ronald Susilo, came to Singapore to study as a teenager and stayed on to be trained as a professional player. He became a citizen in due course and has won honours in the international arena for Singapore.

Singapore has its own badminton record and its share of good badminton players. And I don't think we are behind Australia in terms of standard and exposure. You need to find out more of the truth. :D

i am a bit confused, i thought only players who collected enough points or good enough ranks compete in the olympics, but tania luiz is not even in the top 100?

..she's not ranked in the top 100 in the world, but as mentioned in the other thread (in Professional Players' sub-forum), one of the BWF's OG rules states that there should be a representative from each continent/region. They also take into consideration the Olympics' qualification points, garnered since last yr.
Thus the inclusion of Ms. Luiz.:cool:

Please see this thread, under "Continental Representation", rule 3.3.8, for more clarification:
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47511
And here, for the qualification pts:
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58185

i am a bit confused, i thought only players who collected enough points or good enough ranks compete in the olympics, but tania luiz is not even in the top 100?



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metalmon1188 ... Tania LUIZ / Eugenia TANAKA were ranked 49th in the Womens Doubles (from BWF ranking, 1-May-2008).

And what ctjcad has posted is correct... In each event there shall be at least one player/pair from each of the five BWF Continental Confederations.

In the Womens Doubles, please find the number of pairs from each confederation listed below:
Africa ................. 1
Asia ................... 1+10
Europe ............... 1+1
Oceania ............. 1
Pan America ...... 1

From the above list, you can see how Asia dominates Badminton.

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poor rachel hindley =(
TAEDID71 when did you come to australia

You have been unduly influenced by reading misinformation from sources who are being too personal and biased. :rolleyes:

Most of our foreign players were brought in when they were in their early teens and specially trained and developed to represent the country when they are ready. We don't buy all of them 'ready-made' from the shelf as you are suggesting.

Like your sister, our best male player, Ronald Susilo, came to Singapore to study as a teenager and stayed on to be trained as a professional player. He became a citizen in due course and has won honours in the international arena for Singapore.

Singapore has its own badminton record and its share of good badminton players. And I don't think we are behind Australia in terms of standard and exposure. You need to find out more of the truth. :D


Haha..Yeah sure... I'm a friend of shinta mulia sari n his bros play for singapore too.Hendra wijaya n hendri....They, them self told me that...They have better future playing for singapore coz they got no chance in indo....About aust, we only play for fun and no support from government and it's not of major sport so yeah...As far as i know, Badminton is one of Singapore's national coach....At least we won a lot of gold medal in beijing from swimming...Singapore any????Thats the truth....

poor rachel hindley =(
TAEDID71 when did you come to australia

Hey, i came to aust when i was 13... and play for aust since then....

u r very sharp george... yes, they are brothers... currently, Gary is playing regularly with me... I still trying hard to beat him :crying::crying::crying: Another Aussie ex-national player is Raymond who is also playing with me... very tough guy. so far we got 2-3 aussie ex-national players and few ex-SG national and few ex-Msia state players... 1 SG national player... all tough guys...

we r still trying to bring LCW to show up and let me do my "one-time" jumping smash... :D

Side note: Sri Lanka National players also in town (SG) and their top TWO single players played against us last week. We lost to them but beat other Sri Lanka players (Not national players).


haha...Gary and raymod....Say hi to him from einstein Tanaka....^^! Thanks....

Haha..Yeah sure... I'm a friend of shinta mulia sari n his bros play for singapore too.Hendra wijaya n hendri....They, them self told me that...They have better future playing for singapore coz they got no chance in indo....About aust, we only play for fun and no support from government and it's not of major sport so yeah...As far as i know, Badminton is one of Singapore's national coach....At least we won a lot of gold medal in beijing from swimming...Singapore any????Thats the truth....

It'll take Singapore a long while more to obtain a gold medal in the Summer Olympics. We can only boast of two silver medals so far, but we're not giving up. ;)

But we obtained a gold and a silver medal in swimming from the just concluded Paralympics - a first for Singapore. :)

We are learning from Australia in many sports-related aspects and hope to achieve more from our athletes.

Australia should compare with the best like China and the USA, not with tiny Singapore! :rolleyes:

Another Aussie ex-national player is Raymond who is also playing with me... very tough guy.



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:D:D:D jimbo ... Yes, it's been 2 years now since Raymond has moved to Singapore from Melbourne.

Has he grown back his hair? :D:D:D Get him to post something here.

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It'll take Singapore a long while more to obtain a gold medal in the Summer Olympics. We can only boast of two silver medals so far, but we're not giving up. ;)

But we obtained a gold and a silver medal in swimming from the just concluded Paralympics - a first for Singapore. :)

We are learning from Australia in many sports-related aspects and hope to achieve more from our athletes.

Australia should compare with the best like China and the USA, not with tiny Singapore! :rolleyes:


Well, I wasn't going to compare Australia and Singapore from the first place anyway...i am just referring to
"Singapore has its own badminton record and its share of good badminton players. And I don't think we are behind Australia in terms of standard and exposure. You need to find out more of the truth"...Haa..US and China, The population of china n US compare to Australia....30 billion ppl compare to 20 million? I think it's easier to find a person like Lin Dan out of 30 billion ppl....

Well, I wasn't going to compare Australia and Singapore from the first place anyway...i am just referring to
"Singapore has its own badminton record and its share of good badminton players. And I don't think we are behind Australia in terms of standard and exposure. You need to find out more of the truth"...Haa..US and China, The population of china n US compare to Australia....30 billion ppl compare to 20 million? I think it's easier to find a person like Lin Dan out of 30 billion ppl....

This I agree with you, but there are always exceptions and we should not give up on a super talent that comes our way once in a lifetime! :D

Anyway, I hope you are enjoying your badminton. :)

Australia has plenty of young talent its just the funding/interest that struggles to push us through.
here in brisbane we have Ian Lai :) former junior world champion hehe but he doesnt coach or play much anymore. (also not sure of his chinese name)

Im sure eventually we will get some young superstar who will make their mark for aus and we will go from there. Hopefully.

Australia has plenty of young talent its just the funding/interest that struggles to push us through.
here in brisbane we have Ian Lai :) former junior world champion hehe but he doesnt coach or play much anymore. (also not sure of his chinese name)

Im sure eventually we will get some young superstar who will make their mark for aus and we will go from there. Hopefully.

He doesn't coach or play anymore! From being of that standard , do you know why he has stopped playing/coaching?

He doesn't coach or play anymore! From being of that standard , do you know why he has stopped playing/coaching?

apparantly he didnt believe badminton was the best way he could build a career off. So he settled down to raise a family and work career. He still plays socially once a week i think.

A lot of good players do this , after becoming a high standard of player. And don't let their children play.