Poll 11/100 | Badminton Polls 1/2 | Women's Singles and Women's Double Medallist

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[Jinzha 702]

I don't really know badminton, but I like watching it during the Olympics and I really enjoyed Marin's win in Rio. And with a little help from the world ranking I filled the other 5 votes. 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 234]

Women's Singles is really close and anybody out these 9 players can win medals - Carolina Marina (defending champion), PV Sindhu (reigning world champion), Tai Tzu Ying (current World No 1), Okuhara and Yamaguchi (home advantage), Chen Yu Fei, Ratchanok Intanon, An Se Young and He Bingjiao

[Griff88 1,952]

Well.. I hope if TTY can close her career with gold (assuming she still had that plan to retire after the Olympics)

[phelps 7,677]

well, Badminton is one of the few sports I don't follow regularly (actually, I normally only watch world champs and olympic finals)...

 

so, I picked those who most likely are the pre-competition favourites because they are the reigning world/Oly,pic champions and/or on top of the world ranking...

 

so, in the women's singles I went with Carolina Marin (I remember her dominating in Rio and I know she won so many titles she deserves a lot of consideration), Chen Yufei (because China is China...and in badminton this means a lot) and Nozumi Okuhara (home advantage, good ranking and I saw on the Japanese TV that they always dedicate a lot of space to her, so i assume they expect a top result in their home Olympics)...

 

in the women's doubles I just picked the 2 Japanese pairs because they're on top of the world ranking and because of the home advantage) and the Korean pair with Lee So Hee (because they're the top ranked pair not coming from either Japan and China...and I'd like to see a good spread of medals also in this sport not to get bored to death)...