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Our badminton women’s doubles teams, who were aiming for the gold medal, had a battle for the bronze medal.
It’s Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan, and Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong.
Correspondent Se-hyun Kang.
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As the shuttlecock goes over and over again, the rally continues for a whopping 1 minute and 30 seconds.
The world’s fourth-placed group Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan, the world’s fourth-placed gold medalists, faced off against the world’s sixth-ranked Indonesia group to advance to the final.
We played hard every set, but unfortunately we lost 0-2 due to a lack of backing at the last minute and did not make it to the finals.
Kim So-young and Gong Hee-yong Jo also lost to the Chinese group and were disappointed in the finals.
Initially, it was expected that the two Korean groups would compete for the gold medal, but it was pushed to the 3rd and 4th place match, and only one of the two teams was able to win the medal.
38th place in the world, which caused the biggest surprise by beating Japan’s Kento Momota, who was ranked No. 1 in the world, and raised expectations for a medal
This time, Heo Kwang-hee became the victim of an accident.
Heo Kwang-hee was defeated by Kevin Cordon of Guatemala, who was ranked 59th, and did not advance to the semifinals.
The women’s handball lost to the European ambush Montenegro by 26-28, 2 points.
The national team has 1 win and 3 losses, but if they defeat or draw their next opponent Angola, they can look forward to advancing to the quarterfinals.
This is Sehyun Kang from MBN News.
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