waouu thks YunYun for those pix...very nice pix =)) Xia, xingfang and chen yu did they always training with them or not?? and have you some more i collect special pix from china team ? thanks ....Syaoran....
YunYun, Very nice pics. Thanks for posting them. You mentioned it was a closed door training then how did you get all those pictures? Are you part of the chinese badders team or something? Please forgive my ignorance because I don't know much about your background.
I think Xia Xuanze, Xie Xingfang, Chen Yu still in team to do training. I am not sure. Those photos are not taken from my hand, it's from a person who is gone to Yiyang Training Center for working. Marcellina: sorry, I just saw your mail and I will reply u as soon as possible.
Lin Dan hurt his foot for the same reason. Wondering how could CHN national team allow this to happen (complain to Yonex???) right before Olympics game.
Thanks for the photos, Yunyun. I didn't get a chance to go into this stadium but just from an outside perspective, it looked top-class. Was the training open to the public though?? Is the China team still training there currently?
anybody else notice that they are using non-yonex rackets in the black and white pics?? kason rackets?
simulate match condition hi since aircon affects the flight of the shuttle path, and that sometimes in matches they switch it off, would they train under sweltering hot conditions just to simulate Athens? JL
yes. the location that they trained in, Yiyang, was chosen because it has a similar climate as Athens!
They also did the following: 1. Setup the Yiyang gym as similar as Athen's gym as possible, including, light, paint, spacing, a/c, etc 2. On purposely spend 40+ min on road before internal match ups to let the player get similar feeling as "waiting-forever-before-big-games".