Tokyo Olympics: Denmark star Axelsen dethrones China’s Chen Long to bag males’s singles gold

Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen has gained gold in males’s singles badminton, denying a repeat title to the defending Olympic champion, China’s Chen Long, 2-0 in convincing style.

Axelsen and Chen, two of the world’s most brutal smashers, ended their match 21-15 21-12 after almost an hour of flash pictures and mesmerising rallies. Afterward, Chen embraced and spoke in Chinese with Axelsen, who was nonetheless sobbing when he left the courtroom.”He told me that I deserved it, and my performance here has been great. And I said ‘Thank you so much and that he has been a big inspiration to me,” mentioned Axelsen, who had simply hung up from a name with Frederik, the crown prince of Denmark.Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting beat Kevin Cordon of Guatemala for the bronze medal 21-11 21-13, crushing his hopes of profitable his nation its second ever Olympic medal.With Chen’s silver, China has swept six badminton medals at Tokyo, greater than another nation: a gold and silver in combined doubles, a gold in ladies’s singles, a silver in males’s doubles, a silver in ladies’s doubles and, now, a silver in males’s singles.While the haul is not as large because it was in London when China gained all 5 golds up for grabs, they’ve executed higher than the 2 golds and one bronze medal they scored at Rio, their lowest at an Olympics.Earlier, world quantity six ladies’s doubles pair Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu of Indonesia gained the Olympic gold medal, smashing their method to victory as raucous onlookers chanted and waved massive nationwide flags.They beat China’s Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan 21-19 21-15 to cries of encouragement from a handful of socially distanced Indonesian group members and assist workers that echoed by Tokyo’s principally empty Musashino Forest Sport Plaza.