Team USA - Badminton

[clemsonbeav 469]

A little birdie said this isn't our best sport...but we can still cheer on our team!

[clemsonbeav 469]

Looking at these qualifications...

 

We get a whopping 2 places by default (one for men's singles, and one for women's singles).  There are 16 possible slots available (though only China filled up all 16 in Paris).  In Paris, we sent 7 athletes.

 

For this sport, it all depends on rankings, and that intersects with continental representation, too.

 

Rough estimates looking at current rankings:

We'll just have the one in Men's Singles (currently Mark Shelley Alcala, currently #85)

We'll probably just have the one in Women's Singles (Beiwen Zhang, currently #21)

We'll probably get a Men's Doubles (we're 14th out of 16th to qualify...currently Chen Zhi Yi and Presley Smith, currently #28 in the rankings)

We'll probably get a Women's Doubles (we're 13th out of 16th to qualify...currently Lauren Lam and Allison Quynh Lee are #24, and Francesca Corbett and Jennie Gai are #32)

We'll probably get a Mixed Doubles (we're 13th out of 16th to qualify...currently Presley Smith and Jennie Gai are #26)

 

(So, out of these, looks like only the Men's Singles one wouldn't have qualified already.)

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Best chance to medal is Beiwen Zhang. Really hope she makes it further than she did in Tokyo and Paris.