No surprises,the XD Gold goes to Xu Chen/Ma Jin winning out over the HKSAR pair of Chau Hoi Wah/Lee CHR. http://data.tianjin2013.sports.sohu.com/data/PDF/BD/67121.pdf
The rest of the results : MS Gold to Du Pengyu over Wang Zhengming in two straight sets, 22-20 and 21-17. http://data.tianjin2013.sports.sohu.com/data/PDF/BD/56309.pdf WD Gold to CHN Tang Yuanting/Ou Dongni beating the JPN Miki/Yonemoto. Note that CHN WD Ma Jin/Zhao Yunlei conceded walkover to a KOR pair in the QF. http://data.tianjin2013.sports.sohu.com/data/PDF/BD/56311.pdf MD Gold medal went to the TPE Tsai Chia Hsin/Lee Sheng Mu who beat their compatriots Chen Hung Ling/Lu Chia Pin. Note that CHN MD Chai Biao/Hong Wei conceded walkover to the HK pair Ng KL/Lee CHR in the QF, in addition to Liu/Qiu retiring due to injury to TPE pair Chen/Lu also in the QF. http://data.tianjin2013.sports.sohu.com/data/PDF/BD/56310.pdf That's the end of the 6th East Asian Games. Several of the participants have to immediately proceed to Denmark for the PSS tournament commencing two days later.
12 hours flight to Copenhagen in the cramped economy class couple withe jet lag is going to be very taxing on the players especially when they have just played in one competition.
Somebody knows whether there will be another EAGames this year? I personally think the high tier countries in badminton should only send their second team in such regional events. Japan team with Team A and Team B is a good system to support and integrate this policy.
The East Asian Games are finished. Wikipedia describes it in the past tense. This article refers to its 'transformation' to the EA Youth Games, starting in 2019.
thank you very much. Do you know any news on why it is finished? Did they think it is not useful etc..?
The proper word should be East Asian Games transform into East Asian Youth Games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_Youth_Games The 2017 East Asian Games was scheduled to take place in Fukuoka, Japan, but was later scrapped and will make a new event in 2019. (It's now the 2019 East Asian Youth Games, in Taichung, Chinese Taipei). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_East_Asian_Games