75 000 US $ for Lin Dan’s shoe !

wow...that is a lot of money
how much do you reckon Roger Federer's shoes would be worth?

 

wooow, if lin dan ever wants a new car or two he could just sell one of his shirts

 

i guess that is the down side of badminton being too popular.
Tickets cost more, player's toys cost more

 

not exactly, the article said shoes, not shoe

yonex marketing need a lesson here.
they should sell LD version of AT700, not LTD edition.

 

anyone knows what yonex shoes size LD wears?

 

it says "WOULD BE WORTH" ... has someone already bought them? Are they already up on an auction site? I personally believe this seems kind of optimistic and was quite shocked by the amount. I wonder if Lin Dan will ask for them back after he hears about this? If I am not mistaken $75,000 is about the amount you received after winning 3 super series titles?

 

2008/08/25

OLYMPIC SILVER: It's not OK, Lin Dan

By : T. RAJENDRA, Petaling Jaya

IT was thoroughly disgusting to see world No 1 badminton player Lin Dan throw his racquet and shoes into the crowd on winning the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics recently.

The world body must put a stop to this sort of behaviour before under-wear and bras start flying in the air.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Letters/2330729/Article/index_html

Someone's overreacting. They're shoes.. He's still wearing socks.. The racket still has its paint.. The only sport that could even have this happen would be beach volleyball, and I'm quite sure it won't be anytime soon. But really, what a rude implication in the title. To have your medal degraded because of celebrating your victory. They do it in plenty of other sports. You might as well protest that they need fences to protect baseball fans from home run balls.

 

happens all the time, in these forums. I wish they checked out the sticky, especially the part regarding ENGLISH only. The last time i checked BOLEH is not english, but i could be wrong.

 

What? What was the point of your quote? What happens all the time in these forums? What about English being the lingua franca of these forums? Where does "BOLEH" come in? It's Malaysian..

 

Good news for Games memorabilia hunters
By Chen Jia
China Daily
Updated: 2008-08-28 07:28


If you are interested in something related to the Olympic Games, you could go in for NBA star Yao Ming's bed or the ancient Chinese drums used in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Media reports say Yao's 2.6-m-long bed in the Olympic Village could fetch up to 2 million yuan ($292,000).

The drums, called fou, however, could come cheaper and definitely easier to get because there are 2,008 of them, and as many umbrellas, each of which comes with a smiling face.

More than 20 million Games memorabilia will soon be put under the hammer, and anybody can bid for them. The auction is estimated to fetch about 1 billion yuan ($146 million).

Information on the auction will be posted on China Beijing Equity Exchange's (CBEX) website (www.cbex.com.cn) soon.

A CBEX manager yesterday said the Beijing Olympics organizing committee (BOCOG) has authorized it to sell the items after Sept 17, that is, after the end of the Paralympic Games.

On some popular auction websites, the bidding for star athletes' belongings has already heated up. The bid for the pair of sneakers men's badminton gold medallist Lin Dan threw into the crowd has risen to 3 million yuan ($439,000).

And the signatures of Yang Wei, who won the men's all-around gymnastics gold, and his teammates are going for 10,000 yuan on taobao.com.

The CBEX manager said: "Every piece of item listed online (for the official auction) will have an accompanying photograph and the contact number of its 'keeper'."

This is not the first time that Games organizers are auctioning such memorabilia but it is definitely the biggest.

Furniture and fixtures, timepieces, light bulbs and a variety of sport equipment, too, will be put under the hammer. And it could take up to two years to auction them all, CBEX president Xiong Yan said.

On Aug 5, in the first stage, the CBEX auctioned off 1,470 pieces of furniture and devices for 23,000 yuan, almost five times the estimated price.

The money raised from the auctions will go to the BOCOG, which has not yet announced what it intends to do with it.

The items to be auctioned include a sedan used by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge.

 

It says the pair of sneakers. So both sneakers? Still $439,000 USD...

 

The lucky fan who grabbed the goods was a hot topic of conversation among Lin's die-hard fans online and off.

An online search by a Beijing newspaper yielded a surprising result: more than 100 people claimed to be the lucky ones. A keyword search ("Lin Dan's shoes") on Baidu, China's popular search engine, resulted in a staggering 440,000 hits.

One poster in Lin's online forum reads: "I was cheering for Lin last night, and I have Lin's right foot shoe now." Others questioned the authenticity of his claim: "So long as you have the shoe, why not post a picture to convince us."

Another poster gives specifics about how Lin's shoe fell on top of his head. The poster is offering 100,000 yuan for the other show, which is sill at large.

Other deep-pocketed fans soon dwarfed his offering price. The heftiest offer now stands at half a million yuan, enough to buy an apartment in most Chinese cities.

 

WoW!!!!!!!!!!! 75000 oho i think very lucky of fan too

but..........i need Racket more

 

I wonder whether Baders Jaz has seen this thread!