Yes. Badminton is the fastest racket sport in the world. The shuttle often travels at speeds in excessive of 185 miles/hour during a doubles game. Each player in a singles game often has to sprint more than 2 miles of distance. The top level badminton players are among the fittest elite athletes in the world.
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The bolt will be running in about 1 hour. Wonder how fast will he go or will he try to "just win the race" again.
China with another gold in Taekwondo to bump their total to 45. They've passed the US gold medal total from the last time the games were in the US with 4 days to go. Impressive!
Expect maybe up to 5 more golds from China. I still think US should win the overall medal count, but no way US catch China now in gold count.
Everyone have to watch the men's 200 tonght! Spoiler The Bolt is not human! He won in 19.30 breaking Michael Johnson's record of 19.32 and won by more than half a second!
For the 200m finals, is it really necessary Spoiler to use a spoiler tag when you should have guessed that Bolt would have won by like 10 meters and break the world record? Well, he didn't celebrate before the race was over this time.
I posted this in the other thread but I don't think people are looking at it much anymore. (and I cannot blame them)
