From: cheu@neptune.its.uci.edu (Kelvin Cheu)
Subject: Malaysia + Badminton + Olympic
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Reply-To: cheu@neptune.its.uci.edu (Kelvin Cheu)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:52:54 GMT

Just thought that you guys out there may be interested in this:

In article <TEUBEN.92Jul27150449@lynx.astro.umd.edu>, teuben@lynx.astro.umd.edu (Peter Teuben) writes:
|> 
|>     OLYMPIC BADMINTON - BARCELONA 1992
|>     ==================================
|> 
|>  1. Preview
|> ===========
|> 
|>    After having been an exhibition sport during the 1972 Munich
|> Olympics, and a sell-out exhibition during the previous 1988 Seoul
|> Olympics, badminton is now an Olympic medal sport.  However, as in so
|> many other Olympic sports (for example tennis, and table tennis), mixed
|> doubles is not an Olympic event.  The official reason for this is simply
|> due to limited space and time. 
|> 
|>     Originally the competition was planned to be held in Sabadell, a
|> suburb to the north of Barcelona.  The town's Municipal Sports Hall
|> would have been modified to provide a three-court facility seating
|> 4,000.  However, the competition has been moved to the 'Parc de Mar', in
|> the Olympic Village.  No more details are known at this writing. 
|> 
|>     The IOC has set a limit of 192 players, with 40 players for each of
|> the singles events, and 28 teams for the doubles events.  A player, if
|> qualified, may play singles as well as doubles. 
|> 
|>     Badminton, like so many other Olympic sports, has a limited number
|> of countries participating.  The IBF (International Badminton
|> Federation) selects players primarily based on a computer ranking
|> system, though with an additional requirement of a fair geographical
|> representation.  The selection of players was done as follows:
|> 
|>  1.  First, the host nation, Spain, is quaranteed one spot. 
|>     (David Serano will enter). 
|>  2.  Next, the top team/player on the ranking list from each of the five
|>     IBF continental regions (Europe, Asia, Oceania, Americas, Africa)
|>     is selected, plus filling five more spots. 
|>  3.  Next, any team/player, in position 1-4 on the ranking list, not yet
|>     selected, will be selected, thus filling between zero and three
|>     spots (since at least one of these will have been selected in (2)
|>     above. 
|>  4.  Next, any team/player, in positions 5-8 on the ranking list, not yet
|>     selected, will be selected, unless in doing so a country would have
|>     more than three representatives in the event as a result of that
|>     selection.
|>  5.  Finally, the remainder of the teams/players necessary to fill the
|>     draw are selected in order from positions 9 and down on the ranking
|>     lists, unless in doing so a country would have more than two in that
|>     event as a result of that selection. 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Schedule: (times are all local Olympics)
|> _________
|> 
|> Tuesday, July 28:       classification games  10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Wednesday, July 29:     classification games  10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Thursday, July 30:      classification games  10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Friday, July 31:        classification games  10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Saturday, Aug 1:        classification games  10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Sunday, Aug 2:          quarter finals        10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Monday, Aug 3:          semi finals           10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
|> Tuesday, Aug 4:         Four final games      11 a.m. 
|> 
|> 
|> TV coverage:
|> ____________
|> 
|> Your best bet is a satellite dish and pick up the Malaysian signal,
|> or perhaps the Australian one. NBC *may* have a 5 minute spot, but
|> since they are totally driven by money and US medals, there is little
|> hope of coverage for the supposed 300,000 badminton players in the US.
|> 
|> 
|> Sports Illustrate Medal picks:
|> ______________________________
|> 
|> 
|> Men singles:    Ardy Wiranata, Indonesia
|>                 Zhao Jianhua, China
|>                 Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen
|>     	           Rashid Sidek, Malaysia ********************
|> 
|> Men Doubles:    Sidek/Sidek, Malaysia   ********  Malaysia's first gold ever!
|>                 Park/Kim, South Korea
|>                 Hartono/Gunawan, Indonesia
|>                 Li/Tian, China
|> 
|> Women Singles:  Tang Jiuhong, China
|>                 Susi Susanti, Indonesia
|>                 Lee Heung Soon, South Korea
|>                 Pernille Nedergaard Jessen, Denmark
|> 
|> Women Doubles:  Hwang/Chung, South Korea
|>                 Lin/Yao, China
|>                 Gowers/Sankey, Great Britain
|>                 Magnusson/Lim, Sweden        
|> 
|> 
|> 
|>  - Peter Teuben
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