Needless to say, crowds and badminton fans around the world have become accustomed to some trepidation before any match between two Chinese sides. But this time, Lin Dan and Chen Jin left the crowd completely clueless about what was this all about.
By Tarek Hafi, live in Paris. Photos: Badmintonphoto (live)
Incomprehensible. That was the only word, anyone could use, after watching Lin Dan and Chen Jin’s match. When many thought the Lin Dan and Chen Jin match might end early in a lopsided victory or even earlier, with a walkover, the two players decided to do their own remixed style of playing.
The two players entered the court confidently, foreseeing probably a fair encounter. However, the first game was what many expected, a non-game: clear, drop shot, clear, drop shot was the pattern they were treated to until Chen Jin opened up a huge margin to win the first game.
The crowd, obviously not happy about what they were seeing, all began boo-ing the two players together, frustrated at not getting the match they deserved after buying their tickets and making their way to the stadium at their own expense. The second game, became predictable as a string of points were given to Chen Jin until…it was Chen who didn’t want to play either. This time, it was him who would let the shuttle land on the line, miss smashes and let Lin Dan take the game. The entire crowd could simply only focus on that match, and you could see everybody looking at each other saying “what is going on?”
A situation the Chinese team never gave us an occasion to witness. Therefore the whole crowd started to guess who would take the rubber? Lin Dan did. And, the most incredible part of it is that they both fought hard to get that third game, suddenly playing hard smashes, increasing their speed, with plenty of raised fists. Lin Dan, obviously took the match, fighting only for one of the games, and also let the world discover a new scheme in their Olympic point quest.
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LOL!! On court for 1hr25mins for that??Looking forward to watch this man..
Q:China Vs China?
Answer:
A> A walkover
B> A circus match..(this is new trend)
C>I couldn’t care less..coz now badminton is a joke.
p/s: mix of answers is advisable =)
wow, incredible reporting …
Now, Lin Dan plays yet u still condemn him???
what’s wrong with u???
how many times LD has to say that he’s carrying injury???
If LD still plays and then get bashed, i guess it’s better to concede walkover anyway…
Afterall, the anti-LD gonna bash him anyway…
now, i beginning to see the wisdom behind his walkover…
oh wait, i guess some1 gonna say china manipulating the matches???
BUT BUT BUT, if LD plays, u guys would still say matchfixing too, HAHAHA
Earth is flat, pigs can fly and poor LD is always injured when he has to play Chen Long.
yeah, and Lee Chong Wei (or Gerhard) complained: why didn’t he get injured when he played with me?
Yes Lee I think you are right and I give credit to you
See guys first game LD did play bad and CJ maybe lost focus and in the third both could play better. Yes sometimes its crazy but can you watch french open plz see there are many many walkovers between different countries and some walkovers are from china to korea or korea to china just for example. Always writing this without even any clou without any reasonable idea is total bulls*** and it shows unseriosity I must say 
things to just say is easy, maybe writing something about you know is better, and just saying CJ LET LD get points is not fair in your situation I think thx for posting guys anyway 
I agree this with Lee..this article is clearly biased…the author is bashing at Lin Dan…he did eventually withdraw today…
This article is not biased, this article is not biased, this article is not biased, Let’s repeat: this article is not biased, is not biased, not biased, biased………………
The chinese team members are offending constantly the BWF-player’s code of conduct. Li Yongbo is even admitting manipulations and no sanctions are taken by BWF.
http://bwfbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=35803
The current penalties are completely toothless. I hope BWF imposes stricter rules as soon as possible.
Then go and screw BWF, Gerhard
Then accept that people blame China for cheating!
evidence?
and the biggest cheating is the stupid rule for ruling out top players for olympics. for those who insist on fairplay, ban that rule first!
This permanent connection of the manipulations with the olympic qualification regulations only supports the fact that Li Yongbo is manipulating matches.
It is up to the chinese team to work on these rules if they do not like them.
It is up to BWF and other federations to stop chinese manipulations.
Everyone knows it. BWF is weak. I say chop Li “The Tyrant” Yong Bo. He has brought and continues to bring SHAME to Badminton as well as Chinese! Stop all the jokes, BWF.
and i love this site
hello TAREK HAFI…how are you doing?
I am doing very fine !
Thank you James
Good evening James,
I am deeply sorry if you have felt offended by this report, it didn’t have this target.
What I did, was reporting the match i saw, and wanted to show the crowd, players and journalists’ feelings towards this match. I am also sorry by the fact that people didn’t get to see this match on TV court, to actually notice, and witness this bizarre match, that lest us totally speechless, as it has been exactly as what you read on this article. However i completely acknowledge the fact that some readers won’t be pleased with this report and i’ve written it to express what the biggest majority felt. I am available to comment more on this match if you need more explanations of course.
Tarek Hafi
The reason they played funny was because of another ongoing match between Hu Yun and Tago. CJ has no confidence against Tago and would avoid meeting him even if he was desperate for Olympic ranking points. If Hu Yun had won, CJ would win. Since Tago won, CJ would lose. They extended their match until they knew Tago won.