Chinese language duo Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong gained the badminton combined doubles gold medal on the Paris Olympics after beating South Korea’s Kim Gained-ho/Jeong Na-eun within the ultimate on Friday. Zheng and Huang, silver medalists on the Tokyo Olympics, gained the gold medal match 21-8, 21-11. Whereas it have to be the one massive second of the day for Siwei, however not for Yaqiong, who was proposed by her boyfriend and Chinese language males’s doubles participant Liu Yuchen, proper in entrance of your complete crowd. The video of the heartwarming second goes viral on social media.
Watch it right here:
“I will love you endlessly! Will you marry me?”
“Sure! I do!”OMG!!! Romance on the Olympics!!!
Huang Yaqiong simply had her “dream come true”, profitable a badminton combined doubles gold medalwith her teammate Zheng Siwei
Then her boyfriend Liu Yuchen proposed! pic.twitter.com/JxMIipF7ij
— Li Zexin (@XH_Lee23) August 2, 2024
Afterward Friday, India’s Lakshya Sen made historical past on the Olympic Video games in Paris, changing into the primary male shuttler from the nation to achieve the semifinals in males’s singles badminton competitors on Friday.
Whereas PV Sindhu had bagged two medals within the Olympic Video games and Saina Nehwal had claimed a bronze within the 2012 version in London, no Indian male participant had reached the medal rounds within the Olympics.
Sen achieved that feat with a hard-fought victory over Chou Tien Chen of Chinese language Taipei 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 in a 76-minute encounter within the males’s singles quarterfinals.
Sen, the lone Indian shuttler nonetheless within the fray within the Paris Olympics, misplaced the primary recreation after the Taipei participant opened up a 5-2 lead. Although the Indian star levelled scores at 5-5, his rival continued to take care of the higher hand and opened up a 14-9 lead, Sen once more fought again to seven factors in a row to take a 17-15 lead. Nevertheless, Chen couldn’t be denied, and he went on to win the sport 21-19.
Sen took an early lead within the second recreation, however the Taipei participant stored at his heels and after a fast change of factors, they had been tied 13-13 when the Indian shuttler, a former World Championships bronze medallist, took management of the proceedings and gained 5 factors in a row to open up a 18-13 hole. He went on to win the sport 21-15 to take it to the decider.
Sen was on prime of his recreation within the decider as he took management of the proceedings 2-3 and opened up a 9-4 lead. Although his opponent from Chinese language Taipei tried to struggle again, Sen maintained his higher hand as he gained the sport 21-12 to win the match and seal a spot within the semifinals.
Lakshya Sen will subsequent face the highest seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Loh Kean Yew of Indonesia.
(With IANS Inputs)
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