Predictions ------------ Through our polls, our members predicted two golds for China and one each for Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea. MS - Malaysia (Lee Chong Wei) MD - Korea (Lee Yong-Dae & Jung Jae-Sung) WS - China (Xie Xingfang) WD - China (Yang Wei & Zhang Jiewen) XD - Indonesia (Nova Widianto & Liliyana Natsir) Er, not even one prediction came through! Expectations -------------- Quite a few of our members believed that the competition would see a 'one-for-everyone' division of the golds: MS - Malaysia (Lee Chong Wei) MD - Korea (Lee Yong-Dae & Jung Jae-Sung) WS - Denmark (Tine Rasmussen) WD - China (Du Jing & Yu Yang) XD - Indonesia (Nova Widianto & Liliyana Natsir) Well, the politically-correct equitable distribution theory didn't pass muster Results -------- Well, this is where the badminton golds went at the 2008 Olympic Games: MS - China (Lin Dan) MD - Indonesia (Markis Kido & Hendra Setiawan) WS - China (Zhang Ning) WD - China (Du Jing & Yu Yang) XD - Korea ( Lee Yong-Dae & Lee Hyo-Jung) China - 3 Golds Indonesia - 1 Gold Korea - 1 Gold
We are all blinded by our own predictions. When you are an 'one-eyed' fan, it is easy to miss the target. When we get more practice, perhaps predictions will better.
after months and months pf guessing who will win the gold medal in beijing OG08..finlly we are able to know the outcome and the results.
The results were really unexpected.. shows how much the Olympics mean to the players, they play with their lives at stake.
Ah, nice wrap of the predictions, polls and results... very nice... alas, the badminton has come to an end, thank you to everyone for making it a memorable badminton in Olympics 2008...
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=930493&postcount=164 the same majority who voted large fine and heavy suspension penalty for Lin Dan will also likely vote LCW as the OG MS gold winner. therefore the second most popular voted player would yield the correct prediction, ie., lin dan.
I did select LD and ZN as champion and i am sure many people correctly selected the eventual champion as well, just that they are not the majority.
Me got 2/5 CY/FHF failed me miserably GL/ZB just humiliating XXF lost to Zhang ning so thats not too big of a deal
hehe i selected China to win everything >< XD results surprised me, but the MD was good. They came close to getting everything, if only zheng bo didn't screw up. Good play on Gao ling's part.
LOL, yup, I got 1 out of 5 right too. I think very, very few of us got more than 3 right. MS & MD, the 2nd top most votes won gold. MS was only dept to have top seeds winning in that order : WR#1 gold, WR#2 silver, WR#4 bronze. MD was next with 1st & 2nd seeds (but WR#3) winning gold & silver, bronze winner is out of top 10, WR#13. The rest, havent got time to see & count.
Huehehe, saved by markis/hendra. My pick TH (I maybe did not think then) Others (with MKY in mind) Markis/Hendra YW/ZJW FL/VM at least one is right
Let's see... Taufik (x) Tine (x) Markis/Hendra (v) Yang/Zhang (x) Nova/Lily (x) Our heroes saved the day, indeed!
I think the most surprising result is XD, few badminton fans who predict the underdog pair Lee Young Dae/Lee Hyo Jung to win gold.
