Chong Wei settle for silver as Lin Dan defends Olympic singles gold

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China’s Lin Dan celebrates winning his men’s singles badminton gold medal match against Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Wembley Arena. –Photo by Eurosport

LONDON: Chinese badminton star Lin Dan beats his arch-rival Lee Chong Wei from Malaysia 2-1 after dropping a game, and wins the gold medal in men’s singles Sunday afternoon in the Wembley Arena, Xinhua reported.

Scores of the three games were 15-21, 21-10 and 21-19. The deciding set was extremely heart-stirring, with scores of the pair tied from the beginning to the end, before the world No. 1 seed Lee stroke the last shot out of the court.

The overjoyed Lin, 29, rushed around the arena for celebration, while his rival sat on the court sobbing.

Datuk Lee Chong Wei only managed to claim the silver medal after bowing out 21-15, 10-21, 19-21 to Lin Dan of China in the men’s singles final of the 2012 Olympics.

It was his second silver medal after losing to the same opponent in the men’s singles final of the Beijing Olympic Games four years ago.– BERNAMA